Charged for garden waste

[Puzzled]

Stroud council charge for it. The bin men check the regular rubbish and leave it there if there's garden waste in it.

Just shove it in a black bag if they're going to be that petty about it.

They are starting the charge in the new year around us, no apology for making a previously free service now at a premium just tough luck and keep giving us more council tax.

 

[FoxEye]

Just shove it in a black bag if they're going to be that petty about it.

They are starting the charge in the new year around us, no apology for making a previously free service now at a premium just tough luck and keep giving us more council tax.

You do know that central govt have told councils they are getting less funding from the treasury, yes? Our is getting £75 million less in the next financial cycle, and have been openly asking all council tax payer which services they want us to keep and which we we be OK with scrapping.

They've already had to make £300 million cuts to date, and who knows if there will be even more cuts in future.

Get used to council tax rises. Public services can't be run for free.

 

[Energize]

It's absurd to think that we have now gotten to the point where people are burning and even in some cases dissolving waste because of council charges, it's making the situation worse for the environment.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I've never heard of this before (being charged for garden waste). In my area (Stafford), I have alternate collections. So even-numbered weeks they collect general waste and odd-numbered weeks they'll collect garden + recyc or vice versea.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Or just take it to the tip or compost it.. Hardly a big deal..

Can't compost woody stuff thats what goes into the brown bin here, and compost... well it doesn't vanish into thin air the heap has got to be dug out sooner or later.

It's absurd to think that we have now gotten to the point where people are burning and even in some cases dissolving waste because of council charges, it's making the situation worse for the environment.

There is only so much material you can dispose of unless you're having fires every other week and you've got to store it somewhere to dry it off first. Sounds like a lot of faffing about to me.

 

[MichaelAwkward]

Maybe I'm in the minority here with a fairly local recycling centre that'll take as much garden waste as I can fit in my car seven days a week free of charge... ?

If I want it collected, I have to pay for a brown bin but I don't produce enough to justify it.

 

[Skillmister]

Garden waste is still collected in bags I think every fortnight here. Grey bin is every 4 weeks so not much chance to put other stuff in it..

 

[Energize]

There is only so much material you can dispose of unless you're having fires every other week and you've got to store it somewhere to dry it off first. Sounds like a lot of faffing about to me.

That's true, but I've actually seen people dissolve plastic waste in acetone and flush it down the drain.

 

[ChrisD.]

Just shove it in a black bag if they're going to be that petty about it.

They are starting the charge in the new year around us, no apology for making a previously free service now at a premium just tough luck and keep giving us more council tax.

I don't have much of an option. During the warmer months I would pretty much fill my regular landfill bin with grass every fortnight and that's how often it (and garden waste) is collected. So I'd have nowhere left for normal rubbish.

 

[SPG]

Blue Bin, Black bin in Derby all under council tax,

Brown bin for Garden waste is extra £30 odd quid.

Derby useless council (if Heineken did councils they would close Derby council and move it somewhere else under a different name) say something about too much grass and it doesn't compost down so it has to go somewhere else.

 

[Em3bbs]

It's absurd to think that we have now gotten to the point where people are burning and even in some cases dissolving waste because of council charges, it's making the situation worse for the environment.

I'd say a lot less people burn stuff these days. People used to have bonfires all the time when I was a kid in the 80s! Now I have a much bigger garden and I still feel 'guilty' when I use our incinerator rather than a normal bonfire.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Started last year here (i think), £25 a year, i don't mind paying it, as got lots of bushes in my garden.

 

[Vanquish-Storm]

£30 a year (say year but you only get something like 8 months) how can it be cost effective? There is about 4 houses on my street out of over 60 that pay.

 

[Basher]

£46 a year here. Kind of frustrating but don't have much choice.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Just had the letter to sign back up for next year, gone up a fiver, now £30.

 

[englishpremier]

Our residents pay less than a £1 a week out of the Council Tax for their bin collections which is amazing value. A private company who offer domestic waste collections charge £10 per collection so you can see that £35 a year really isn't that much for what you're getting.

Recycling is a massive business. I doubt the company handling the waste is suffering. They are basically being paid to turn a profit.

 

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