WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES HAVE ARGUABLY NEVER BEEN MORE politically charged than they are today. Communities and local government secretary Eric Pickles famously called weekly bin collections "a basic right for every English man and woman" and, last year, stated that: "Fortnightly collections are unpopular and unhygienic. It's the traditional weekly bin round that people want." However, the waste review last week confirmed that the Government was not going to bring back weekly waste collections, as had been rumoured in the weeks leading up to its publication.
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