This is a disgrace..... It will make no difference to people living alone or couples, but what about people with 2 kids or more? Neighbours will start dumping there bags in other peoples bins, the recycle bins will be used incorrectly and if the bags that aren;t in the bins are left and not taken back inside by the person who put them there it is going to cause rifts

How about keep weekly collections but don't put your black bin out unless its full. Quite often it doesn't go out because its only a third full. The Council collection service can drive past when its not out.

Labour Manchester, back to the 70's, rubbish piling up.

tameside have been doing this for years!!!

If Black bin collections are going to fortnightly, I can't be bothered to recycle anymore. All my recycling will now go in the black bins too. If the council can't be bothered, then neither can I.

Save money by scrapping money for Manchester Day, Lord Mayors Parade, St Patricks Day, St George's Day, Christmas Lights in City centre, etc. Never mind that it brings in income for the city, it brings in income for the city centre, not for the likes of Cheetham Hill or Wythenshawe

. Why not cease work on doing up the Towm Hall so that the people of Manchester who pay their Council Tax can have the basics that a council should provide i.e. emptying rubbish.

Can someone answer the question:
The 'black bin collectors' will only have 50% of the work to do in each week.
What do they do in the time thus saved? Are they laid off?

Ratchester!

I used to live in Northumberland where fortnightly collections have been around for a few years. It causes no problems. Stop moaning and start recycling properly!

The council, like many others, has obviously decided that its main role is to employ lots of 'officers' doing non-jobs and half-jobs rather than to provide services.

Just wait until your blue bins also go fortnightly (opposite weeks to your black bin), and your brown bins go four-weekly. Suddenly the boundary line between Manchester and Stockport will be even harder to spot.

and who will "police"? we have all the relevant bins, and use them - recycling all we can, but most of our neighbours have two or even three black bins which they fill every week.

why should be suffer at their expense, when they fill the bins n start pilling rubbish all over our streets?

This is a good idea, people always refer to big families not managing which I can see the logic of initially.

However we now have 3 or 4 bins compared to 1 previously, so moving bi-weekly collection shouldn't make much difference if you are recycling properly.

I fill my recycling much faster than my black bin.. I can go 3 weeks without putting my black bit out at times.

"The changes, originally announced in the council’s budget in March, are expected to save the town hall £12m in landfill tax over three years and increase recycling rates by almost 40 per cent. "

How?

The amount of rubbish will be the same, but delivered at a different rate.

MCC are the biggest con merchants ever and thanks to the silly sheep of Manchester they now have an ever heavier hand than they had before.

As a community guardian(volunteer) in North Manchester I opposed the bulky collection being reduced to twice a year. We have been 'selling' the free bulky collection to residents to stop flytipping outside gated alleyways.
It had reduced over time. So after residents have used their two collection allowence then we will be back to square one!

Stephen Holt

Here we go, the start of Leese and his cronies, starting their 'Revenge Cuts'. What's the first thing this guy is going to say when people say kicking off?

"It's the fault of the coalition for cutting our budget!"

Watch this space....

I just looked at the positive side of this story, at least we'd only have to clean the road after them every fortnight

A cut is services paid for through council tax should mean a reduction in my council tax bill then. Can't wait for the refund notice in the post.

In our communal four block we fill the one black bin we have been allocated each week (we all fully recycle before you ask) so the move to two weekly means we need another bin. As usual this champagne socialist led council makes a change without thinking of the consequences to the residents, who in North Manchester are treated with almost universal contempt. No sign of an additional bin of course and I doubt we'll get one or are we expected to buy one? The fact that my neighbours are disabled pensioners of course counts for nothing as the Council & Northwards Housing are just interested in using the tax they collect on their salaries.

Can't wait to see councillors front gardens turning into a fly tippers dream. Soon change their minds then, WON'T THEY.

Don't see what the big deal is?

An average week in my household would be less than a binbag per person per week.

For a family of 4 that would be 8 bin bags per fortnight which fits easily into a black bin

I can understand nappies will create a lot more rubbish (separate debate disposable vs washable nappies that can be left for another time) but apart from that what is this rubbish that people are creating that cannot go into one of the recycling bins?

I ask this given that garden waste, fruit & vegetable trimmings, paper, cardboard, glass, tins, cans and many plastics can all be put into the recycling bins.

Is this really such a hardship or are many people just being lazy?

I totally agree in principle but since more students have moved onto our street in Ladybarn I can't see how it will be controlled. I know people blame everything on the students in South Manchester but if you walk around Fallowfield and Withington you quickly realise that its the student houses that don't recycle correctly, don't take their bins back in, regularly overfill bins, leave rubbish on the street and dump stuff in other peoples bins.
I can't see the Green City and Waste Teams engagement strategies overcoming this problem with fewer collections as they've achieved little sustained improvement so far.

This has been the case in Oldham for quite some time now. If you recycle and use the food waste bin,you will not fill the black bin.I have 2 young children and was worried about fortnightly collections but I haven't had any problems.

My blue (paper etc) and brown (plastics etc) are now collected once a month. My black (rubbish) is collected weekly but my family could cope if it was collected fortnightly.

I have three children including a dirty-nappy-producing 17 month old. Our black bin is rarely more than half full in a week whilst we recycle thoroughly. The biggest problem is food packaging. The government should tax food manufacturers for the packaging they use whilst also relaxing some of the supposed 'hygiene' regulations that prompt the over-packaging of fruit&veg, meat&fish and dry food stuffs. It's the plastic- and polystyrene-based packaging that is the biggest problem and clogs up landfill.