Garden Waste Tax

Just thought I'd try and gather common consensus on this topic. A flyer landed on my doorstep this week stating that with effect from 1st June the fortnightly garden waste collection is to become a paid for service costing £35 per annum.

Is this service still free in place in other parts of the country and anybody else had similar taxes imposed on them? All down to the Council having a huge deficit that we have to pay for!

 

I wouldn't know. I've been here 3 years now and never put the green waste bin out once. In fact the green waste bin has been modified (by me) and is in fact my main compost bin.

The councils plead poverty, but I know that at least some are lying. Take our one for example. They were pleading poverty as far back as just before the Icelandic banking crisis. After said crisis, our council was one of those upset because of all the millions it had lost. The question was asked (but never answered as far as I know), how could they have claimed poverty if they had several million quid in an offshore bank account.

 

They collect it here in Mid Wales but you have to pay for the bags. £1 I think. Difficult for folk with no car to get to recycling center. Luckily I have compost heaps. Councils.. don't start me off.

 

We have one here £25 per bin per year used to be free till they claimed poverty!
I don't bother now either goes in compost bin or burnt!

 

They seem to think that everyone is a Cash Cow

 

We don't have garden waste bins here, we either compost it ourselves or take it to the local amenity site (tip) where they take it away to compost it.

 

We have to buy the bags from the Council - minimum purchase 10 bags @£1 - everything has to be cut up small - they cannot accept kitchen waste, vegetable peelings, soil, turf, stones or Japanese knotweed according to their website -

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Fortnightly free green bin collection in Gateshead but over the river in Newcastle it is £20 per year.
Whats the betting fly tipping of green waste goes up.

 

I come under Salford Council but no charges here for any of the four full sized bins.

Grey = general waste
Brown = tins, bottles, etc
Blue = paper, card
Grey with pink lid = garden waste and all food waste.

Grey bin is collected weekly and the others are collected fortnightly.

 

Hull City Council and East Riding Council both provide blue (recycling), green (landfill) and a brown bin (garden) without paying extra. Assume it's paid for in rates also.

We hardly ever use our green bin now, most packaging is recyclable.

 

Vale of the white horse (Oxfordshire) charge £37pa for a brown bin, with collections every 2 weeks. We get a "free" Recyling bin (Green), Rubbish (Black), and food waste (Small & Green) which are collected every other week too. South Oxfordshire has a different scheme, as does Oxford City I believe.. no doubt each with its own set of expensive management (since all the actual work is contracted out).

I dont have a lot of space for compost, so I do use the brown bin for the overflow, & all the other stuff that I dont want in my compost (Ivy, Blighted Toms, Leaves from the walnut tree etc) - In an ideal world I would burn it, but theres just not enough space.