On household waste generally, in the distant past with little waste, we had one bin that they would collect weekly, and even open you side gate to get the bin.
Nowadays with at least 4 times as much rubbish, it has to be almost gift wrapped for them to collect from the kerbside, and forget. weekly, your lucky if it every 2 weeks. Is it because, like so many council services, In them days they employed people to be outside doing the proper jobs, Park keepers, toilet attendants, etc rather than the hordes now sat on their fat arses, in offices with an assistant to the assistant etc, whose work is limited to answering the phone, with excuses on why this or that cannot be done,