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I’ve just looked. Wincing. It’s gone up a bit but the ordures ménagère are an astonishing figure and we now have to drive ALL our rubbish to the nearest bin or déchèterie as the bin men stop this October.
PFFFT.

[ajm]

Ours has gone up 27€ but we pay separately for bin collections

[MAD87]

Our ordures ménagères went down by half when Veolia replaced the twice-weekly collections by one. I was surprised, having said to OH when the change was announced that "you can bet the price won't go down". We pay about €60.

[suein56]

Gosh 60€ .. that's amazingly good value. Fancy having your rubbish collected .
We have separate "sous terrain" bacs for bagged rubbish, glass and plastic/paper, they are grouped together every few hundred metres so nobody has far to travel.
In summer the bac emptying is 3 times a week, at other times it is once a week.
The cost .. IIRC from last year is about 260€.

[Lori]

Yes, ours went up too. The biggest rise - yep, you guessed it, ordures ménagère. The system changed last year and everyone complained, so the Maire changed it up this year. We got back our bins on our street (instead of those bins that you had to use a badge to open, were limited in the size of trash bag that would fit and were limited to how many times you could use your badge to deposit trash), only now the residents get a key in which to open them. You are given specific, pre-paid red bags to use and you are allowed two rolls of red bags for year at no extra cost. This year we pay 174€ for this pleasure.

[MAD87]

Golly, we're clearly lucky. We're allocated about 8 rolls of red bags p.a., free. No bins allowed here - the bags are placed on the pavement on Wednesday night and collected at silly o'clock Thursday morning. Recycling stuff we take to bins about 50m away once weekly, no sweat there (OH takes them ).

[Polly]

I’ve just looked. Wincing. It’s gone up a bit but the ordures ménagère are an astonishing figure and we now have to drive ALL our rubbish to the nearest bin or déchèterie as the bin men stop this October.
PFFFT.

What happens if you don’t drive or have a disability and can’t carry your rubbish and recycling? Plan to have good neighbours or ???????

I can’t remember just now how much we pay but it’s not been a lot and our bins are emptied from outside the building 3 times each week, based on the number of bins put out in the 4-6 weeks when most apartments are used. A recycling point is a couple of hundred metres away, although we generally carry ours when we walk into town, a 5-10 minute walk, depending on how many friends we meet on the way - all those kisses!

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I’ve just looked. Wincing. It’s gone up a bit but the ordures ménagère are an astonishing figure and we now have to drive ALL our rubbish to the nearest bin or déchèterie as the bin men stop this October.
PFFFT.

What happens if you don’t drive or have a disability and can’t carry your rubbish and recycling? Plan to have good neighbours or ???????

I can’t remember just now how much we pay but it’s not been a lot and our bins are emptied from outside the building 3 times each week, based on the number of bins put out in the 4-6 weeks when most apartments are used. A recycling point is a couple of hundred metres away, although we generally carry ours when we walk into town, a 5-10 minute walk, depending on how many friends we meet on the way - all those kisses!

exactly. My neighbour (84) no car, frail, will rely on others. She is writing to the mairie to ask when they will be collecting her rubbish each week! We will of course do what is required and the neighbourhood although sparsely propulated will do what is required.

[exile]

We have never had anything but communal bins but for those in the village they are sited to be no more than 100m from where anyone lives. For those out in the farming hamlets however it can be a different matter, although anyone living out there without transport has more pressing problems than rubbish disposal.

[Polly]

Yes, it’s great to have good neighbours; we’ve mostly been lucky to have one particularly lovely elderly French neighbour from day 1- we all moved into the new apartments the same week.

We had regular long chats and as she became more frail it was no problem to get her fish, bread etc with ours. Sadly, she died a few years ago.

I’ve brought our taxe foncière up, 943€ including 190€ for les ordures.