Green Bin Collection not free next year

Councils can barely afford to provide the statutory minimum legal services they have to provide so it’s inevitable.

 

Some will, we wouldn't be able to do that our bin is always full by the time two weeks is up.

 

I always thought ( must be wrong) that the council get money for our recycling waste ( paper, cardboard, plastic and glass) my ex father in law used to work at superdrug warehouse in Elmasll and all the cardboard packaging was packed and compressed and sold, the money made was used to tax the vehicle fleet (road tax/ emissions tax)

 

Don’t mind the Police charge as a principal but the 11% increase figure for a Police Commissioner is shocking.

 

Depends on each council, ours even though we separate it all goes to an incinerator, with the exception of green waste which they pay to get rid of.

 

But they can afford 5% pay rises and pension increases to match for the management team and to discount rents in council owned properties...

 

Whether this true or not, why not have a compost heap? - free to use, and provides compost for your garden in the future.

 

Attracts rats

 

so does having a black bin, a shed, a warm garage, long plants in your garden, a rockery, your drains etc...

 

Ryanair business model - HATE it

 

I am a very keen gardener and so is my wife. We have never used our green bin. We compost. I even collect the leaves from off the street and compost those separately to make leaf mold. I have recently spread most of the resultant compost on the garden. The stuff that was not rotted down sufficiently went back in the composter and will go around again for another year. It is not hard. It does not attract vermin. At the end of the process, you get a product that improves your soil. There is no down side.

 

When I lived int tarn I remember the council issuing composting bins, free I think.
If you needed any instructions or advise in how to use it you could call the "composting officer" at the council. does he or she still exist?

 

we’ve got a wormery for most food waste but don’t have the room for a compost heap sadly, but agree, the richness of the compost and the liquid produced from the wormery is better than anything you buy

 

I live over the border in darkest Rotherham - yes, £39 per year for fortnightly collections (summer) & monthly (approx) in winter

 

I've got one of those on my christmas list!

 

worm wee, it’s the future!

 

Bloody hell, so it's not even recycling in some areas

 

Cheaper for the council to take to incinerator that to recycle.
More common than a lot realise

 

A good amount of our recycling now goes to landfill, can’t recall the exact amount, but shockingly high.

 

I go fishing, worms are expensive.

I kill two birds with one stone so to speak.