Sheffield Rubbish Collections Possibly Down To Once A Month ?

[The_DADDY 3,479]

Just now, HeHasRisen said:

Yes. If it was such a great idea every local authority in the country would do it, I suspect the number that do are 0.

True. Having said that it wouldn't be a shock if it happened eventually.  

[HeHasRisen 3,411]

No I think the public health drawbacks wouldnt allow it as a sensible option. 

 

 

[The_DADDY 3,479]

2 minutes ago, HeHasRisen said:

No I think the public health drawbacks wouldnt allow it as a sensible option. 

 

 

I hope you're right and you probably are.

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[lazarus 68]

Once a month would be ok for a single person but for a family No, just imagine what  Page Hall would look like with once a month collections.

[nikki-red 308]

9 hours ago, top4718 said:

They could go back to collecting them weekly then if that's the case, to leave food waste in bins for a month is not only ludicrous it's unhealthy.

They collect them weekly now.

[HeHasRisen 3,411]

4 minutes ago, nikki-red said:

They collect them weekly now.

Looks like we have ourselves a good oul fashioned pedant-off!

 

He is clearly talking about the black bin "general waste" only.

Edited October 9, 2022 by HeHasRisen

[Funky_Gibbon 42]

10 hours ago, Chekhov said:

Whilst in the CoOp I read the headline in The Star saying Sheffield's rubbish collections maybe reduced to once a month.

I accept after they chose to shut down much of the economy for months on end over Covid we are all going to have to put up with many things getting much worse.

But monthly rubbish collections ?

What about (even more) rats ?

What about increased fly tipping ?

And in the summer particularly, what about the smell ?

The reason the council (and every public service in the UK) are having to think about doing stuff like this is because the Government have provided almost no additional funding to cover some quite large new expenses.

 

One of those is the 5% pay increase (which still amounts to a large pay cut thanks to inflation) the Government announced they were giving to public sector workers in the summer. The Government only provided about 40% of the money required to cover this new mandatory spending and said that public services would have to find the rest of the money out of their existing budgets.

 

In addition to that, the Government have also announced that they're not going to uplift their previously announced annual budgets, where they estimated inflation would be something like 4%, to take account of the actual rate of inflation of around 10% so all public services are now having to find ways delivering services on a substantially reduced budget.

 

There's also the increased cost of gas and electricity and there's no cap on the cost for business or public services so the bills for those will have risen by a lot. The Government have announced some kind of relief scheme here but everyone is still paying more than they were even after that.

 

Oh and the cost of paying for the rebate that was part of the Government's help on household energy costs and which local authories were made to fund.

 

After 12 years of shrinking budgets and increased statutory spending requirements and all of these unfunded extra spending costs, it's not at all surprising that we're seeing things like this being contemplated because despite what people on here may think there's nothing a great deal that can be cut that doesn't hurt us all anymore.

 

Oh and that's before we even get to the massive (at least as large as after 2010) reduction in public spending the Government are now planning in order to pay for every tax cut in their 'Mini' Budget, the vast majority of which they're still going ahead with, plus the £20bn per year they added to our debt repayments by spooking the markets and forcing interest rates to rise.

 

Get used to the idea of not receiving the services you think you're entitled to because none of us are going to for a very long time.

[crookesey 635]

Whatever happens in the Theatre of Dreams in S1 is anyones guess. 

[dutch 68]

Also seen that big photo and headline when walking through shop yesterday.

First thought that went through my mind was that Sheffield star is looking for sales and attention again by means of scaremongering. 

Considering someone worried scared started a topic on forum about this they succeeded.

Edited October 9, 2022 by dutch

[Chekhov 488]

2 hours ago, lazarus said:

Once a month would be ok for a single person but for a family No, just imagine what  Page Hall would look like with once a month collections.

TBH, in terms of volume *, we might just about be able to get away with monthly collections of our rubbish. Our brown bin (cans, bottles and stuff) gets full just as fast, and that's only collected once a month anyway. That said, if the rubbish bin collections went monthly I can see people would be tempted to put stuff in the recycling bins that they wouldn't at the moment (e.g. heavily contaminated stuff) which might affect the ease of recycling ?

 

* not the smell though.....

[dutch 68]

Chekhov I have a question. How well do you know the sheffield star and its behaviour? 

They claim to be a paper representing sheffield but do the weirdest things to keep sales going.

Just calm down and check them out a bit before getting worried.

Sheffield star can twist and blow out of proportions or announce little ideas as if it is happening tomorrow.

[bassett one 453]

they say labour not in charge,but they tend to work with the green party so they are , but cut down on internal staff for starters might give them more dosh for starters,then bring everything to the town hall and sell off all the estate offices or just keep one in each area ,as most are not open to the public any longer theres loads of cut that can be made, another would be if you want new swings for your park let the locals bid for cash that saves more money,want a event make it all park events are via the friends of and that saves loads more money,tennants halls to be given to the taras and they run them and pay the bills via the levy and bids,and what about the 750 thousand levy residue the council have use that to pay bills.most wont agree ,but groups like taras ect can bid for millions not loans,not repayable and thats more savings,groups can get lots of money southyorkshire funding will help free as well.