«Breaking News» Hundreds of families are paying up to £450 a year for private firms to pick up their rubbish

Hundreds of families whose bins are now emptied only once a month by their council are paying up to £450 a year for private collections.

They had been left with overflowing bins following the reduction to services in Conwy, North Wales.

In September it became the first council in England and Wales to switch to collecting rubbish every four weeks.

Graham Jones, 48, from Llandudno, is among more than 700 homeowners using private firms. He pays Waste Concern £37.32 a month for an extra fortnightly collection.

Rachael Owen with partner Mark and 2 year old Tommy, Rachael has employed private bin collections to empty their bin after Conwy Council have gone to four weekly collections

Mr Jones says he, wife Helen, 46, daughter Hannah, 18, father-in-law John, 91, and mother Dorothy, 78, produce too much waste to fill only one black bin a month.

The slashing of collections is said to save less than £400,000 a year – at a time when the town hall has increased council tax and lavished £58million on new offices for staff. 

'We are all being cheated,' Mr Jones said. 'The public are just not getting the service that they pay their council tax for.

'I've no option but to pay for a private bin collection. Although we recycle everything we can we produce too much waste to wait four weeks. It's absolutely wrong, We are being swindled.'

Rachael Owen started having her black bin emptied by a private firm in May, months before Conwy switched to four-weekly collections.

The healthcare support worker, who lives with partner Mark Edwards, 33, and their two-year-old son Tommy in Rhos-on-Sea, was already fed up with her 'smelly' black bin being emptied every three weeks.

She pays Binzilla £36 a month – £432 a year – to collect each week. 'It is a lot of money but it's worth it,' she said. 'I do recycle but some weeks we have too much rubbish.'

Rubbish left to build up in Conwy after the local binmen had been round and collected the bins

Conwy's move to four-weekly collections is being monitored by other authorities in England and Wales. 

Neighbouring Denbighshire council will introduce monthly collections in 2021 and Anglesey is also considering the switch. 

They are hoping to avoid fines of up to £600,000 a year from the Welsh government if they fail to hit 70 per cent recycling targets by 2025.

Yousuf Ayub, director of Manchester-based Binzilla, which empties 120 bins in Conwy each week, said business has more than doubled in Conwy since the council began four-weekly emptying.

Spencer Feldman, of Waste Concern, said it had seen demand for private household collections soar by 50 per cent in three years, not just in Conwy but across the UK.

'If the councils were still doing weekly collections, our service would not exist,' he said.

Conwy council said recycling had risen and black bin waste fallen under four-weekly collections.

Andrew Wilkinson, its head of neighbourhood services, said: 'If people want to pay a private company so they don't have to recycle, that's up to them. 

'To those filling their wheelie bins every fortnight or every week, we would ask – what's in your bin and why don't you recycle like everyone else?'

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