From this week, household waste and recycling is being collected on the same day. If you haven’t yet discovered your day, visit the council website to find out.

I think that these are beneficial changes which reduce the frequency of waste on the streets and makes recycling more practical. I was elected on a manifesto of introducing same day waste collections, so I am glad that the council have introduced this, even if it is much later than I would have liked.

Incidentally, I hear that even David Cameron’s own Conservative council now collect rubbish from his back garden only once a fortnight…