A Green-Run Council could be the first in England to switch to monthly waste collection.
The Bristol city council today started a consultation on the only three or four weeks of collecting non-recyclable waste from residents.
It is hoped that this will give a boost to the recycling percentages, while the municipality claimed that the switch to a monthly collection would lower the costs by around £ 2.3 million.
But local residents have attacked the 'crazy' plans and warned that they will lead to an increase in the number of tips.
Opposition councilors also demanded that attention would be paid to improving the existing garbage collection service before they would continue with the plans.
In their justification for this step, the Bristol municipal council pointed to the imminent setting of a CO2 tax on the removal of waste.
They said that the switch to a monthly waste collection would avoid nearly £ 1.5 million in future CO2 tax costs, while a collection would save almost £ 1 million every three weeks.
An increasing number of municipalities in Great Britain has already switched to a three-week collection of general waste, whereby many also argue for reducing CO2 emissions.
If the Bristol city council continues with its four -weekly plan, this will create the fear that other local authorities with a lack of money could also be encouraged to introduce monthly waste collections.
A Green-Run Council could be the first in England to switch to monthly waste collection
The Bristol city council only started a consultation every three to four weeks on the collection of non-recyclable waste from residents
The deputy leader of the Council, the municipal councilor of the green party, Heather Mack, said to the BBC: 'There will be a load on the residual waste that we have processed because of the carbon that contains it.
'So we really have to think about how much we send and where it can go differently.
“We would also offer larger trays for larger households, and an extra collection for people with sanitary products or diapers, so we don't want people to struggle with it unnecessarily.”
According to the plans, the Bristol city council said that food waste and recycling would be collected once a week, but that non-recyclable waste would only be collected once every three or four weeks.
The public consultation about the possible changes runs until 10 March.
The municipality said that the city is currently recycling around 45 percent of household waste, but warned that this percentage will fall.
The proposed changes would “help us on our way to meet the national objective to recycle 65 percent of the waste in our city in 2035,” the Council added.
Tom Renhard, leader of the Labor group in the Bristol municipal council, said: 'Attention must be paid to bringing the existing services in order.
'I get more and more complaints from local residents in the city that no recycling is being collected and that black waste bins are not collected on [the current] biweekly basis.
'Some of my residents have not had a recycling collection this Christmas period.
“You also start to see that if the recycling waste of the residents is not collected and it accumulates, they throw it in the trash, which does not benefit the recycling rates.”
