"All sounds pretty standard" That's the point I suppose. We have weekly collections of - waste only in blue bags supplied by the council ( - they won't touch any other bags), waste foods in a small box also supplied, and recycled hard plastics in green bags which they also supply. No glass is collected and you can pay £86 for fortnightly garden waste collection in a bin provided by them. There are glass recycling points around and if you don't want to pay for garden waste collection then you take it to one of two tips in the Berkshire area.
The fuss has been mainly over the reduction in frequency of collections of general waste, and also, but less so, less so over having to have wheelie bins. The council are quite right that it's the norm in most other places, there is a lot less general waste and if you recycle properly it will not usually whiff so much as there is no rotten foodstuff in it.
There is a rump of people who will always want to "have their say" on matters, whether they know anything about them or not. There's the annual one about the council no longer cutting some grass verges, and doing less on most, countered by those who agree because they like the "natural" look. There's been arguments over parking costs, which were reviewed last in 2019 (but didn't go up then) and finally rose this year - it was a reasonably sharp rise but people were moaning that a £2 evening parking charge would prevent them from going to one of the £50+ a head restaurants in town. I once got involved trying top persuade them that Armco wasn't required to prevent instant death on a short piece of re-designed road which had resulted in a 6ft drop - on the inside of a slow bend - no deaths, or even minor accidents have happened afaik - and another with a lady who complained she couldn't get her large 4 x 4 through the width restriction (duh why do you think it's there? Go the other way round then!)
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