Fortnightly Rubbish Collections
5 April, 2008 – 1:21Here is a thing that makes me angry. Fortnightly rubbish collections. What a nonsense!
More and more councils throughout the UK have reduced their rubbish collections to once every two weeks. And yes, you guessed right - council taxes will continue to rise regardless of the fact that they are in fact reducing the service.
Call me stupid, but I do not understand how can someone increase the charge but reduce the amount of the service/products they provide? The logical outcome would be all affected clients/council tax payers to find an alternative provider. Sometimes an alternative provider may cost more but if you are desperate for a weekly collection, it is a way to go.
What would happen then? Are those councils going to amend their council tax rates to exclude the rubbish collection charge if an alternative rubbish collection company is used? I don’t think so 
The pie is too big to give away especially in the current situation where local councils wield monopoly power.
I would love to see more and more rubbish collection companies on the market competing between themselves on quality and price. When that happens the councils days as rubbish collectors will be counted. However I expect a government ruling to protect the councils because as I mentioned above - the pie is too big to give away.
I hope that sense and reason will prevail and the problem will be sorted once and for all.