Posted By Derek Carpenter Its reasonable to say that human behaviour always plays a key role in the creation or solution of a problem. If everyone had a discipline many of the ideas on this forum might be achieved. Perceptions may prevail but reality will have the final word. Look at the litter in your town centres. Does this suggest any community spirit or regard for neighbours? Bin bags will be left to rot in some areas more than others. I sympathise with the collectors. I wonder if they were ever consulted? I think we can guess the answer. Bad feelings between collectors and residents will be inevitable i suspect.

Posted By John J We have had fortnightly collection for over a year now and are so good we are being rewarded with a waste recycling centre 70yards away from residential property. Added to this 600+ heavy vehicle movements through already busy roads and you can undestand why re-cycling is loosing its popularity locally. Having said that I'm in favour of it but would move the plant 1/2m away to a rail terminal and bring everything by train. Thinking out of the box maybe we could employ heards of badgers and foxes is digest the food waste..

Posted By Alan Hewett For consideration, How many people would be willing to manage the waste that THEY PRODUCE responsibly and go to fortnightly collections if thier Council Tax bill was halved as a result?

Posted By Lilian McCartney I've just thought of something else (been a bit slower lately). Having seen the tv news and them trying their best to show the worst pictures of rubbish piling up on the streets - how about blind people who struggle at the best of times to get along the pavement when bins/rubbish is left out? Of course this applies no matter how often the rubbish is collected but surely more means less space. Bob, I like the bit about foxes and badgers having a look to see if there is anything of use. It gave me a picture of them going who wants the old beano? Lilian

Posted By GARRY WIZZ Weekly or fortnightly, i think its a load of old tosh.Some people re cycle and some don't. deal with the root cause and we could make effective progress. First step is to reduce the need for re cycle. My rubbish comes from a supermarket. The first thing I need is less packaging on my products. Give me less rubbish and I can re cycle easily and a 2 weekly collection will be less of a problem. I use a milk man because he gets rid of my rubbish, thats my kind of re cycle. It does cost extra. Less packaging means less carbon foot print, less for me to recycle and will impact on the people who don't bother at all. I cannot at the moment reduce my waste production unless I stop buying things. Force the supermarkets into preventing excess rubbish driving out the carpark Households produce rubbish, but it is the commercial/business activities of the nation that produce waste on an unbelievable scale. There is very little done to curb this excessive waste and it is not easy to re cycle as a business. There is much talk of our impact on the planet. There is very little action to save the planet. So untill someone gets round to seriously addressing the root cause of our problems I see no reason why the general public should be mugged over bin collections and re cycling. So a weekly collection does away with all the health and safety problems created by fortnightly collection hence it is logical to me that is the way it should be conducted weekly.

Posted By Jon Vitta If you have got room then get a few chickens, easy to keep and really useful for eating your scraps of food,nice fresh eggs and they eat those pesky woodlice, as well as giving you top quality fertiliser. What they don't eat then compost this and get a wormery for the animal waste. problem solved (for those who have gardens) why don't they think about get community bins for flats etc which can be emptied on a regular basis and that food waste can go to the pigs (as it used to from my school many moons ago)

Posted By Jon Vitta Robert Its all about balance, if you mix it with your normal compost its a winner. the egg shells also prove to be a good slug repellent. unfortunately this year the amount of rain has washed them away and the lettuces have taken a complete battering.

Posted By Derek Carpenter www.middletongaurdian.co.uk/news Its good to talk but better to listen. This local authority, like many others now, is listening to residents concerns and re-thinking. Well done Rochdale.