Will reducing black bin collection encourage locals to use their green bins?

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Bristol City Council is now consulting the public about potential radical changes to how rubbish is collected. This is to help encourage locals to reduce reuse and recycle, as Bristol aims to be a greener city.

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00:00You get houses of multiple occupations, lots of people, a few bins outside, I mean they're

00:08just going to be completely over spilling, so it's an awful idea.

00:14We have two black bins for a house of six of us and they're still pretty full by the

00:19second week, so I mean once a month would be, I think there'd be a lot of rubbish everywhere

00:24kind of.

00:25I don't know, I mean the recycling kind of works, we get most of it away through that

00:29but yeah we still build up a reasonable amount of actual trash bags that I think once a month

00:34would probably be too much or too little even, like not picking them up anywhere near enough.

00:41I understand there's a financial problem, they've got to make savings somewhere.

00:50I think the whole system needs rethinking, it's too complicated, you only have to walk

00:55around here, I mean that's why I've got this thing, I go around picking up litter.

01:01People are not using the system.

01:05So the concept behind it is to encourage people to use their green bins, do you use your green

01:09bins?

01:10No, I'm not a conservationist at all, I think that's very overhyped.

01:15So on the colour spectrum I'm not green, I'm purple really.

01:19I mean it might encourage people to recycle more but I think that's already what the two

01:23every other week is meant to be doing and maybe isn't doing as well as it could be anyway.

01:28I think it's quite a complicated system, I mean a UK national wide system would be much

01:34better because I think it's still different to where I live at home, recycling is different

01:40to Bristol here.

01:42Do you think it's going to encourage people to recycle their stuff more?

01:45No, I think it's, you know, you've got this area, there's lots of students, nothing against

01:50students, but they're going to just bung it where they can.

01:54So I don't think it is, they're doing it to save money basically.

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