Charged for garden waste

koooowweeee said:
That would be a great point if you knew anything....
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I work in the industry in case you missed it.

koooowweeee said:
what else would they do with it?? All recyclable waste gets sold and reused :-/
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Yes but not by the council as your post implies. It is taken by a private company (who run the plant where it is disposed by the council) at a CHARGE to the council. They then turn it into compost and re-sell it, not the council so your post implying it's some kind of scam is utter bollards.

The costs for running a £150k vehicle that does 5 miles to the gallon with 3 crew members coupled with the disposal costs is pretty darn expensive. Our garden waste service currently runs at a slight loss.

You act like you're somehow doing the council a favour by creating garden waste, you're not.
 
majnu said:
mine goes in with the food waste bins, you guys are getting shafted
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No they're not. How a council collects your waste is almost solely down to the tips and MRFs in their locality. If your local disposal point (mostly run by private companies by the way) isn't set up to take food and garden together than how can the council collect it like that?

This generally accepted idea that Waste Managers at councils sit in a room and come up with random methods of how they collect really is quite frustrating.
 
estebanrey said:
I work in the industry in case you missed it.



Yes but not by the council as your post implies. It is taken by a private company (who run the plant where it is disposed by the council) at a CHARGE to the council. They then turn it into compost and re-sell it, not the council so your post implying it's some kind of scam is utter bollards.

The costs for running a £150k vehicle that does 5 miles to the gallon with 3 crew members coupled with the disposal costs is pretty darn expensive. Our garden waste service currently runs at a slight loss.

You act like you're somehow doing the council a favour by creating garden waste, you're not.
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what a load of tosh 80% of councils disposed of garden waste at their own plants and turn it into compost and sell it on. blue bin waste ie: cardoard,paper,plastic etc all get recycled by the councils and then its sold on ,green waste is done the same . little while ago there was an tv programe on newcastle council where they recylce everything what they can't recycle they send it aboard something like netherlands where it turns into electricity and that country pay's newcastle council so its a win win for councils
 
chillidog said:
what a load of tosh 80% of councils disposed of garden waste at their own plants and turn it into compost and sell it on. blue bin waste ie: cardoard,paper,plastic etc all get recycled by the councils and then its sold on ,green waste is done the same . little while ago there was an tv programe on newcastle council where they recylce everything what they can't recycle they send it aboard something like netherlands where it turns into electricity and that country pay's newcastle council so its a win win for councils
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Ahh right, forget that I work in the industry and do this daily. You've seen a documentary so you're clearly the expert. :rolleyes:

But let's say everything said is correct, you are aware that councils are not for profit right? So any money a council makes from disposing of recycling (in reality it's not a profit but less of a loss compared to land filling it) is put back into the service so they only winner is the tax payer.
 
estebanrey said:
Ahh right, forget that I work in the industry and do this daily. You've seen a documentary so you're clearly the expert. :rolleyes:

But let's say everything said is correct, you are aware that councils are not for profit right? So any money a council makes from disposing of recycling (in reality it's not a profit but less of a loss compared to land filling it) is put back into the service so they only winner is the tax payer.
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Agree mostly.

Keen to get into a negative revenue argument?
 
In Stafford, we have green (general waste) bi-weekly, then blue (recyc) in the alternating weeks. About 8 years ago, they added a brown (compost) collection at the same time as they do blue so they kill 2 birds with 1 stone. No extra cost.
 
I don't think we get charged for it here (I've not really looked at our council tax bill closely).

We get a green bin for the garden waste which is emptied every two weeks.
Unfortunately for us, just cutting the lawn can fill it, so tip trips are still needed fairly frequently (either that or borrow the bin from a neighbour who has a much smaller garden - the joys of being on good terms with most of the neighbours).

When they started doing green/orange/black bins there were loads of complaints about them, but I've noticed a lot of people don't seem to complain about no longer having to take their garden waste to the tip themselves :) (and the tip seemed to get a lot quieter immediately after the change about 10 years back).

Personally even if they charged a separate £25-50 a year for it, it would be worth the money compared to the faff of taking a wheeliebin load to the tip (about 20 minutes + the time to put a tarp down in the car, load it, then clean up afterwards).
 
Kermit said:
No extra charge in Leeds where we have 3 normal large bins collected bi-weekly. Black...general waste, green for paper,card, plastic and metal and a green bin.

I'd be seriously ******* off if on top of my council tax they started charging me for the service not so much the cost be it £25-50/year but the principle of councils taking it on themselves to bypass goverment restricted rises in council tax by introducing a new tax and getting away with it. What next a £20 surcharge for lighting your street or £50/year road surface tax.

I get fed up with public bodies seemingly being exempt from keeping rises below or least in line with inflation year after year while most workign people make do with just below or if lucky 0.5% above inflation when times are good.
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How is it an "extra tax" when...

A) It is optional, you don't have to take the service.

B) Collecting garden waste is not a legal requirement for any council.
 
Spook187 said:
I just put mine in the normal bin, nothing but pure greed councils charging for garden waste, what do we pay council tax for:confused:
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As I said above, waste collection is a tiny fraction of your Council Tax. Most of it goes on social care/housing.

Less than a £1 a week of your Council Tax is used for collecting your bins. So why are you moaning about that and not the other £30 odd quid?

Also as I said, a private company charges around £10 per collection so how is £30-£50 a year in any way greedy?
 
estebanrey said:
As I said above, waste collection is a tiny fraction of your Council Tax. Most of it goes on social care/housing.

Less than a £1 a week of your Council Tax is used for collecting your bins. So why are you moaning about that and not the other £30 odd quid?

Also as I said, a private company charges around £10 per collection so how is £30-£50 a year in any way greedy?
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If it only costs £1 a week then surely they can find that from the already over inflated amount of council tax paid?
 
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