I definitely think that the Council should provide wheelie bins. That way, if they did decide to only collect the rubbish every other week it would all fit in tidily till it was collected. Also, it would stop bags getting ripped by foxes or cats, etc. It would keep all the passages neat and tidy, since the council moan about rubbish being everywhere. Why should we pay so much council tax for nothing? Where's it all going? That's what I'd like to know!

   I am shocked that the council is even thinking of changing the removal of rubbish to fortnightly, they can't even manage to collect all of it once a week. I have just looked outside my house to see lots of piles of rubbish and green bottles, when reported to the council i was told that i should recycle bottles!!!! (hello its not my rubbish). The recycle bins are good in thoery but when you dont drive and the nearest recycle containers are miles away it is not always an easy option. Wheelie bins are the best option for the whole of stockport. All council estates seem to have wheelie bins and recycle bins, why? And why should our council tax go up for a simple human right not to be living in piles of rubbish. We sure dont pay for the police to investigate any crimes or remove the kids that cause trouble, steal our cars and break into our houses. I think that the council should have an emergency meeting with all resident as last time i check we live in a democracy were the poeple rule and have there say.

   I dont know about the rest of stockport but in romiley/bredbury the dustbin men seem unable to take the rubbish once a week without leaving half of it behind.I have spoke to them on several occations and was told that if rubbish spills {because cats have ripped the bags} out of bags they dont have to pick it up! And so they dont!! And it could be anything from meat to dirty nappies and sanitary products,not good! And for this poor service to be reduced is a joke..The logo "KEEP STOCKPORT TIDY" makes my blood boil because most of stockport is a dump!!!!

   It is Sunday afternoon and I have just returned from Morrisons in the Lib Dem stronghold of Bredbury. The bottle and paper bank recycling bins are full to overflowing. In fact, I have not seen the paper recycling containers so full since shortly after the last Council newspaper was distributed. Is it too much to expect our so clean and green local authority to put their existing environmental policies into practice before embarking on a fortnightly refuse collection scheme?

   Stockport Borough Council will smell like the wrotting meat thats in our bin-bags we leave outside our houses for 2 weeks if this "plan" is to be put into action! councillers and MPs ... use your bloody common sense!!! is this another cost-cutting plan so you can have that silly waterfall outside merseyway shopping centre so that scallys can do criminal damage?

   Oh come on Council!!!! What are you playing at now?! We already have enough problems with litter lying around so changing the refuse collection to fortnightly is not going to help matters and it's going to make us look even more of a dump like some of our streets and areas already do.

   I have just come across the October issue of the Council newspaper. The front page story is that councillors want to make it easier than ever before for people to make contact with services and for the Council to listen to the views of residents. Apparently the Council consults a 1000 strong Citizens Panel several times a year on big issues. Was the Citizens Panel consulted on ending the weekly bin collection? If not, why not? Is this whole consultation exercise just a PR stunt? Does the Lib Dem controlled council listen the way Tony Blair listens? Why did Tory and Labour councillors abstain rather than vote against the ridiculous plan to axe the weekly bin collection? Let the message to councillors be loud and clear. Vote for a fortnightly bin collection and many of you will have a lot more leisure time on your hands after the May local elections.

   People are fighting fortnightly collections in towns and cities across the UK. Visit http://www.weeklywaste.com to add your name to our protest. At least 10 councils have tried this scheme but have reverted to weekly collections.

   This is typical of Stockport council. It sits and deliberates in its ivory tower, its members and MPs paying little or no heed to local residents and taxpayers. The truth of the matter is that the council is only interested in spending money on what THEY want to psend it on-and not what is actually needed. First we have their mindless quality traffic corridors, meandering kerbs and cylce lanes,now we have 2 weekely collections. Better to collect it weekly from the doorstep than collect it weekely from open spaces where flytipping will increase. Of course the public can only blame themselves for they sit back and do nothing-like stuffed dummies.

   How on earth do this lot keep getting elected. Well folks you know what to do in the next election. Dont vote for them.

   In Cheshire around 120,000 homes are on the fortnightly collections with a lot, lot more to go. There are few problems and most of those few problems relate to housekeeping in homes.

With fines threatened against GMWDA they will be supporting this move.

   'Everything we do helps to make Stockport cleaner, greener, safer and stronger' .....so states the blurb on Stockport's website. Well Stockport residents will be turning 'greener', as the smells will be 'stronger'. It won't be 'safer'...that's for sure. Stockport Councillors stinks....never mind the rubbish.

   I always thought the Libdems where a bunch of SHEEP! Penny pinching libdems are quick to cut services but when it comes to there own pockets you can here the screams all the way to Brussels. I don't see the logic in fortnightly collections instead of weekly collections when you have the same rubbish to get rid of. It just means that GMWDA have double the workload every fortnight. The rubbish is not going to disappear overnight leaving the council with less money to pay out. I can see the councils logic in that if collections are every fortnight they only have to pay 1 week in every two saving a weeks expenditure, WRONG, the workforce as still to be payed for that week and GMWDA will not go for it. The other big question that the councillors decided to sweep under the carpet is the point about health and hygiene, I bet not one of them as seriously looked DEEP into this question, money overrides everything else. We have a very good VOLUNTARY recycling program in Stockport if you start a compulsive program you will get peoples backs up. Out of all the councils in the Gt Manchester catchment area only Stockport held out over wheelie bins for the plastic bags and all of a sudden the high and mighty have now relented and we are to get wheelie bins, found the extra cash have we? seeing they keep on bleating we are poor.