Different parts of the UK have different collection policies, but for us, our food waste is collected every week, while recycling (paper/card, plastic, metal, but not glass in our area :/) and rubbish ("garbage" for merkins) are collected on alternating weeks.

There was uproar when we moved to this from weekly rubbish and recycling collection, but most of the time it really seems to work - we recycle far more than I thought we would.