[Xaccers]

In MK there used to be (under Labour) fortnightly collections, vermine had a field day, people were not happy.
Change of council and re-introduction of weekly collections. The residents got to vote on wheelie bins, and unfortunately decided against it (I like them becuse of their size).
We recycle something like 37% of our waste in MK, so above the 30% target which Labour want, and which they suggest fortnightly collections to reach.
We get free pink recyle bags and the blue tub for glass. When we run out of pink bags, we just pop to the local cornershop and get a new roll.
We've bought our own wheelie bin for non-recylable rubbish to be stored out in the front garden, and just leave the full pink bags in the front garden as there's no food in them so they don't get tampered with.
Doing it this way has made it so easy for us to recycle, the only thing that's a hassle is envelopes with windows in them as the window has to be torn out to recycle the paper.
Oh and they can't handle drinks cartons or bottle screw caps.

MK has shown that if you want people to recyle you don't do it by dropping to fortnightly collections, you do it by making recycling easy and free.