Brisbane

The council removed the everyone’s old larger general waste wheely bins when they rolled the new system out. Old system was 1 large general waste collected weekly. 1 large recycle bin collected fortnightly.

This is what I just don't understand. If everyone already had 1 large redtop bin, why not just keep the large redtops and reduce the frequency of collection to fortnightly? It seems like a big extra cost for the council to replace all those perfectly good bins with new smaller ones.

Part of the intent is to encourage everyone to produce less waste by making it harder to get rid of

I guess that makes sense. Maybe eventually it could even be a good goal achieved in that way. I still think it would've been smarter to keep the same bin size while reducing frequency...at least at first.

Oh and the council saves money on disposal by having this system in place

How, exactly? If they'd kept the same bin size it would have saved a heap, but adding in the cost of buying all the new bins doesn't sound like a smart decision financially.