Bristol’s three-weekly bin collection plan rejected amid £13m refuse revamp

A city council has voted to keep its fortnightly black bin collections rather than move to a three-weekly timetable.

At a meeting on Thursday night, Bristol City Council’s councillors also approved plans to replace 8,000 black bins with sacks.

Committee members agreed to invest £13m to modernise recycling collection vehicles and to introduce a new fly-tipping round.

Councillor Martin Fodor, chair of the environment and sustainability policy committee, said the three-weekly collections had been suggested as a “possible solution” to increase the reliability of collections and street cleaning.