Research by the TaxPayers’ Alliance suggests that eight million people could experience some kind of bin change, of which five million could see a reduction in the frequency of collections.

Over 800,000 could have their weekly recycling service cut to fortnightly or monthly, according to the TPA’s findings.

Three councils – Bristol, Carmarthenshire, and East Ayrshire – are looking into changing residual waste collections to once every four weeks.

Four local authorities – North Ayrshire, Dundee, Angus, and East Ayrshire – are considering changing recycling collections to once every four weeks.

Responding to the findings, a spokesperson for the Local Government Association said there is ‘no one-size-fits-all solution’ to collecting bins and so decisions are ‘best made at a local level’.

They added: ‘We know this local approach works as our own polling shows a majority of residents are happy with the way their bins are collected.’

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