Some of Swindon’s councillors have raised fears that the bin collections could be cut to every three weeks.

This could be the case after it was announced the food waste trial would be rolled out to every household in the town.

The weekly cost of the food waste collection will total £1.4m and cuts could be made to the regularity of regular bin collections.

But Councillor Keith Williams said councillors “are not currently considering this as a viable alternative.”

Here’s what you said on Facebook:

Cheryl Louise: “How will thy is work? They have already cut back in size of wheelie bins, I needed a replacement and I was giving a small wheelie bin.

“When I rang up to ask they said they are doing away with the big wheelie bins now they said it’s to encourage more recycling.

“I have four recycling boxes before anyone jumps on this comment, I am a family of five, luckily we don’t need the big bin but if it was to go three-weekly then we definitely would need it.”

Katie Olivia: “Stupid. Family of six, we use two wheelie bins, all four recycling boxes are full and we have around four plastic bags every two weeks.

“They would need to supply most households with another wheelie bin. Or have the large communal bins for household to share.”

Jennie Fellowes: “They’ll end up with more flytipping which will cost them anyway.

“We are a family of four and recycle everything so can easily have four or five boxes of recycling full and the bin full with the lid closed but an extra week we’d overflow it.”

Janie White: “No way! The town already looks a mess with less grass cutting.

“This will mean more rubbish around and more fly tipping.”

Michelle Brett: “They are not coping with the volume of rubbish now and having to come back the next day, so a three-week collection won’t work. It’s counter productive.”

Clare Loxton: “It disappoints me that nothing is put in place for people who have pets. We should be allocated an extra bin. I would pay as I do for garden waste. Plans have not been thought through.”

Sarah Adele Maddock: “Well that’s just going to be a complete disaster then isn’t it? Why would supplying us all with food waste bins, effect general waste or other collections?”

Lisa Smith: “They should make sure houses have enough bins then as majority don’t have enough for a two weekly collection meaning rubbish will be put beside bins causing further problems like bad smells and rodents and foxes cats ripping bags open.

“Council won’t pick up any rubbish spilling out of bags, they don’t pick up little bits that they drop as it is.”

Paul Davies: “With the food waste being collected, the majority of what was going in to our bin was soft plastics.

“When Tesco started accepting that for recycling we literally had no more than a carrier bag of unrecyclable waste in our wheelie bin on collection.

“Since Covid-19, soft plastics (bags, food wrapping) are going back in the bin and it’s still only half full on collection.

“If Swindon Borough Council collected soft plastics too then they could go to monthly collections.

“I appreciate other people have different kind of waste like nappies. There are also people who are too lazy to recycle.”

Flori Marilena: “Fly tipping on the way, you can’t manage now and all the bins are full after two weeks plus you can’t pick it all up as you’re coming back a few days after to get the rest plastic.

“Swindon will be with rubbish everywhere and plenty of fly tipping on the way.”

Lisa Savory: “No way. Bins are overflowing as is. Not enough room at houses for more bins. They’re not designed that way.

“This will encourage more vermin and what are we paying our taxes for? Swindon Borough Council shame on you.”

Helen Mary Woodruff: “No way it’s bad enough once a fortnight my bins full within just a week and that’s with recycling.”