Collect Refuse in Oxford Weekly

for your rubbish.Metal can recyclers pay you,so do paper and cardboard.So why not get payed for anything recycled.They are in it for the money not for the benefits of recycling.The contents of this bin are the property of (name).Anyone that takes them will be guilty of theft.

The only way to get many people to recycle is to encourage them by removing weekly collections.

Otherwise they can't be bothered to get off their fat backsides and will continue dumping things in the landfill bin.

 http://www.oxford.gov.uk/environment/recycling-improvement.cfm
The council has done a decent job of setting out their case and plans. CROWs site is well argues as well.

I wonder what will happen with stuff that's in the wrong bin? Putting potentially recyclable stuff into landfill is simple and we've done it for decades, but if you put landfill stuff in the recycling box will the collection crew leave it on your doorstep? I half-hope they will.

Change Oxford to Rotten Borough of Rushmoor and it is all too familiar.

I don't see why we can't usefully re-cycle and have hygenic rubbish collection! If a London Borough like Camden can do it why not dozy Oxford Council! Why do I ask that? They can't get much right it seems.

Yet again we see another council that treats its residents with contempt. They forget who voted for them in the first place. In Oxford City they mix up recycling with a cut in services.
They have told residents that it is working in other regions but they fail to mention all the residents in the same areas who have experienced maggots and vermin attacking their 2 week old stinking rubbish. We have an increase of TB, MRSA now Bird Flu what next for this country bubonic plague from the rats? It's time to clean up our act and get back to weekly collections.

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/04/nbook04.xml

 http://www.oxfordmail.net/news/headlines/display.var.1237165.0.three_strikes_threat_over_bin_bags.php

This is the latest info from a council that informed us that everyone was requesting a smaller wheelie bin because they would not have enough refuse to fill a larger one! We are now to be "punished"

Please Visit  http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/WeeklyRubbish/

This person is wrong. Fortnightly collections DO NOT cause health issues. An in-depth study has been undertaken to research the effects of fortnightly collections. They conclude that there are NO health issues (see  http://www.enviros.com/PDF/Defra%20HIA%20Alternate%20Week%20Collections.pdf)

I am more likely to listen to science than scare mongering

Fortnightly collections are the BEST way of increasing recycling and saving this planet

Cranfield University and Enviros Consulting Limited Report
DEFRA Waste Implementation Programme Wycombe District Council
Health Impact Assessment of Alternate Week Waste Collections of Biodegradable Waste

This report commissioned by Wycombe Council and DEFRA on the health impacts of alternate weekly waste collections suggests that there are no adverse effects of moving to this system. However on closer inspection the report is based on assumptions that all waste is stored in wheelie bins and ignores the problems encountered with refuse sacks and side waste (uncollected rubbish). Given that approximately 4500 Oxford households are going to be issued with lilac bags this report has little relevance for Oxford.

The report includes a flawed survey:

 Only 1.4% of those surveyed in shared accommodation
 No questions were asked about additional litter or flytipping two of the key consequences of this new system
 No consideration is given to areas with a high concentration of houses of multiple occupation

There are admissions that:
 Odours will increase in the second week of the collection
 Vermin will increase in numbers
 The numbers of flies will increase

But the report states:

“However there is no evidence in the literature to suggest that rodents or flies will necessarily increase with an alternate weekly collection, provided that the waste is stored in an appropriate container”

This does not address the real problems we are facing here in Oxford with piles of lilac sacks and black bags littering our streets.

Included in the report is the advice from the World Health Organization to collect waste weekly in temperate climates, and further advice recommending twice a week in warmer climates but this is ignored.

This report is a localised study with dodgy conclusions which ignore the evidence. It has no relevance for Oxford and needs to be treated with caution rather than enthusiasm.

Times "Asthma link to late bin pickup"

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