Normally tomorrow would be a yellow bin collection but as its actually christmas day I decided to check the town calendar and yes, there will be a collection as normal but slightly earlier which is no problem as we all put our bins out the night before usually. This is great because there will be a lot of extra paper and rubbish after the family descend and its nearly full alrelady. If you are in same situation with a nearly full bin, try checking your local collection calendar.
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What are bin collections?
You are very lucky to have such a service as many of us now have to cart our rubbish a kilometre or more (in our case) to collection pionts and have to pay a fortune for the privilege.
And if you are too old to participate in rhis circus the system has an answer, ask a nieghbour.
Of course you need a swipe card to open the bin to deposit your rubbish which often doesnât work so rubbish bags pile up on the roadside buts thatâs ok as it provides welcome food for Mr Fox and ratty rat and all their mates to have a midnight feast.
Oh course there are many none locals visiting at this time of the year who donât have a card to swipe the bin locks but thatâs ok as they will be miles away and not see the mess they have left by the road.
Happy Christmas
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Charles Dickens, eat your heart out. 
Yup, bin collections here went quite a while ago. We have moluks about 1.5km away on the other side of the village. Not a side we go to regularly.
But thankfully not needing a card and people are relatively good about putting their rubbish in them, not beside them.
The mayor collects the rubbish of our opposite neighbour! She is same age as me, but dotty and has âlegsâ. Personally I think many of her problems could be solved if she did the 3km walk to the bins ans back a couple of times a week.
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Here in Sud-Angleterre we do have bin collections, though they are fortnightly, alternating between garden waste and âblack binâ household waste, and âblue binâ recyclables, on alternate weeks.
This year we are supposedly having a normal service as our collection days fall on ânormalâ working days this week and next.
That said, the bin men often come a day late in normal times so weâll see if they turn up for the blue bin today or tomorrow (not!) 
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Am feeling blessed at reading the above comments but I do pay around âŹ400/year for weekly green bin collections and fortnightly yellow recycling collections. Maybe its to do with the hot climate for a good part of the year and stopping disease or just how the local agglo have decided. There have been lots of underground bins sited everywhere over the past year but they seem to serve those living in flats or town houses where no place to put bins.
We have alternate week bin collections too. Must check if yesterdays actually went!
We must be very lucky in our Commune. As of the first week in January, theyâre introducing weekly door to door collection of recycling (aka nice new yellow wheelie bins - previously taken to communal bornes) and weekly ânormalâ bin collections. They have only raised taxes fractionally to pay for them. The Commune admitted they looked at the rubbish collection woes widely reported across France - some of which are echoed on this thread - and consciously went for door to door collections, as this was clearly The Will of the People .
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We got some nice new barcoded bins 2 years ago which made a very nice change from having to transport black sacks. Still have to leave them 750 metres from the house, though were told that some big Biffa bins are going to be placed on 150 metres away as kerbside collection isnât possible down our little chemin.
Nevertheless moluks seem preferable to Molloch -
In Cussy thereâs meant to be a rubbish collection from outside peopleâs houses once per week, but we have never seen it happen and we carry our bags to the large green bins by the church. Recycling points are outside the village. Iâve no idea what happens about refuse over Christmas there.
In Angleterre midi our collection is put back from Thursday to Saturday, and thatâs fine.
We have weekly collections of recycling and rubbish - but thereâs a catch with the rubbish collection, in that thereâs a chip in the bin which the men scan and we get billed on. So we tend to fill the bin, and are more conscious of the amount we throw away.
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Yes we have been suitably blue-binned so all is well.
Our communautĂ© de communes publishes all the changes & closures via the Citykomi app. Itâs really handy & worth checking out if your local powers that be are using it.
Previously one had to delve through the CdC website only to find that the only notices about collection changes were for the most recently passed jour férié 
Our commune uses PanneauPocket. Similar sort of app.
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After reading other responses, I feel lucky!
Here in 16270, our black bags are collected weekly.
Yellow bags for cardboard, paper, plastic etc are collected every 2 weeks.
Currently there are no checks on using the local recycling centres, however a card scheme is in the process of being rolled out.
Our local déchetteries use a plastic card that you insert on your way in and this weighs your vehicle, you then dump whatever have you inthe relevent bennes and leave via another weighbridge which then issues you a ticket with all the details and how much in weight your vehicle now weighs. We have an annual allowance which is quite generous and after that, you pay per kg.
This made me smile! We bought our house 30 years ago, and after our first visit to clear the place up I filled up a couple of black bin bags and left them beside our letter box at the end of the drive. Six weeks later we returned, to find the bin bags still sitting there. In my naivety I went up to the Mairie to ask when the binmen would be coming. This provoked a reaction from the staff there reminiscent of the Smash Martians, and when theyâd picked themselves up from the floor the lovely ladies explained that we were responsible for taking our own rubbish to the communal bins in the village. I think that little exchange has become legend in the village!
Love that, especially because I remember the Smash Martians (I wonder how many do 
), but also because we had a similar experience. We used to leave our rubbish bag at our gate and it was collected each week. And then it stopped, so we put it out again the next week along with a second bag. Same thing happened. On the third week our neighbour noticed for the first time and said that the system had changed and now we had to put it in the bin 100 metres away down the hill. Nobody from the Mairie had told us before that.
âFor mash get Smashâ
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