30.06.14
Pickles drawing up plans to force councils collect bins weekly
The Conservatives are planning a manifesto pledge to force weekly bin collections, reports suggest.
If the party wins the next election, the councils that have moved to fortnightly waste collections, saying it boosts recycling rates, will be forced to go back to weekly.
Communities secretary Eric Pickles wants ‘minimum service standards’ that could include weekly general waste collections, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
Very few of the councils collecting fortnightly took cash offered by the current government to switch back to weekly collections.
Pickles views a weekly bin service as a ‘basic right’, and says reducing the frequency was ‘lazy and unnecessary’.
“This government is standing up for hard-working people and getting rid of barmy bin policies which made families' lives hell.”
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