Businessman to collect bins

He currently has more than 300 homes interested in the Bromsgrove, Kidderminster, Droitwich and Redditch areas where local councils operate a fortnightly collection. And he said he intends to expand into South Staffordshire where a fortnightly service is in place.

All four Black Country councils are currently sticking to weekly bin collections although Wolverhampton is set to review its policy in 2010.

Bin King charges households £90 a year or £25 a quarter to collect the rubbish on the weeks that the council binmen do not visit.

Mr Clack, aged 29, already has a business selling laminate flooring but set up Bin King because he was frustrated with a fortnightly service.

He said: "I live in Bromsgrove and as a father of three a bi-weekly collection was driving me mad. It was a personal issue. The rubbish was being left for two weeks which is too long.

"People who have asked about the service are saying the same thing, it's how long the rubbish is being left that they don't like."

But he said his company did not seek to undermine council efforts to boost recycling. He said: "People aren't going to stop recycling just because the bin is being emptied every week.

"The real issue is that if something cannot be recycled it needs to go into landfill and should not be left for two weeks."

More councils are now bringing in fortnightly collections - and the Government eventually wants us to separate our waste into five different categories such as paper, cardboard, plastic, glass and food scraps.

Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley and Sandwell have a weekly collection policy, while Cannock Chase and South Staffordshire, which includes the villages of Wombourne, Featherstone, Perton and Codsall, have a fortnightly collection which has prompted a 3,000-name protest petition.