We have three bins and a box. All collected fortnightly around the year,except the Garden waste one which is collected fortnightly for just over half the year.
We move 18 months ago from the poor side of the village to a new build, in the posher end.
Before we moved, the bin men, sorry waste collection staff, (They're all men and collect the bins all the same!) wouldn't take a bin with the lid even fractionally open*, if you left cardboard next to the recycle bin due to the bin being full, it was left in the street indefinitely**. Bins were left all over the back street after they'd collected, making getting a car into the back yard a slalom where you needed to get out and move the odd bin to get home! Any spills** were left in the back street, and could be there until the wind, local kids or wildlife moved them.
Now, we can stack excess cardboard 5 feet high next to full bin and they take it, bins can be so full that the lids are flopped over the back of the bin and they are emptied. Empty bins are left on the footpath and any spilt rubbish is immediately swept up by the waste collection staff, sorry, bin men, no, waste collection staff. (I think!)
The local council, I know our local councillor, are keen to improve the environment of our old address. My councillor friend is aware of the {perceived} class distinction applied by the bin men (I've settled on this description, until the PC police arrest me!) in the way they do their job.
*Some of these bins now have plants growing from them, they've been in the back street so long. Meanwhile the denizens*** who initially put them out, use other peoples bins for their rubbish, or dump plastic bags, which the bin men won't collect, in the street.****
** Yes we cleared it up, but out of a street of 70 households we were one of two that did this.
*** Definition of a denizen, a human looking being with no sense, moral compass or intelligence. Can be identified by blood on knuckles, where they drag on the ground, ownership of a multitude of children, with misspelled or made up names, all with different, absent, fathers and a number of dogs > No. of children.
****However, when they are called in by the local councillor, once a month, on average, they happily collect them, but then they're on overtime!