Stirling residents asked for views on controversial bin collection system

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Stirling residents are being asked what they think of the council’s controversial bin collection system as part of a review of the authority’s waste services.A survey launched by the council in recent few days asks locals a series of questions on their views of the service and how they use it and how the council could help them reduce their waste and increase recycling.In September 2021 the service moved from two-weekly collections to four-weekly collections and say that household waste collected in grey bins, disposed of in landfill, has reduced from 14427 tonnes between January 2021 – August 2021 to 12876 tonnes between January 2022 – August 2022.However, the council says more needs to be done given that, from January 2026, there will be a national ban on any biodegradable waste (general waste from grey bins) being disposed of in landfill.The four-weekly collections sparked widespread criticism when they were introduced by the then SNP/Labour administration at the council.Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.A Labour minority administration is now in charge at the council, voted in with the support of the Conservative councillors.Stirling’s Conservative councillors campaigned to have the move from fortnightly to four-weekly grey and blue bin collections stopped from the outset, making it a focus issue at the local authority elections earlier this year and claiming that the other other council in Scotland to operate four-weekly collections, Falkirk, had seen their recycling rates fall and fly-tipping reports increase.Despite an initial 6,000-signature petition and a further petition of around 4,000 names, special votes being called and an unsuccessful motion of no confidence lodged in the then