Green Waste Collection

For several years now we've had a wheelie bin specifically for green waste, which is collected free once a fortnight.

I've never put it out once though, as I compost all my garden waste.

I do, however, use it for making leaf mould.

 

I think sharing could work if you have two households who don't produce much garden waste.

We're also lucky in that our council (Salford) doesn't charge for any of our bins. We have four - one each for general waste, paper products, tins/plastics and a compost bin into which we can put food waste as well as garden stuff. The compost bin is collected weekly (to encourage people to compost their food waste rather than bin it) and the rest are collected fortnightly.

 

Some good posts of how others have to deal with their garden waste.If I had the room I wood (pun) compost everything.I think Jiffy is correct ,some people will resort to fly tipping.It is strange as they try to get us to use our cars less yet at same time encourage us to drive down tip to deposit garden waste.
If I go to waste dump I try to go Tues-Thursday and before 10 am.If I go after the q of cars stretch onto the road and you can wait 30-35 mins.The q when they implement this charge will be even longer so so people will just dump it.Still I have left my feedback with council and lets see what happens.
I may not go for the green wheelie bin and take the sacks to dump myself.The reason I am thinking this is since my wife retired she has gone into a shell and is getting afraid to go out and meet people.Taking a trip to dump may not be ideal but we can stop at some store to have a browse around and this will help her to be around people again.

 

I see Norfolk CC are considering charging people to go to their household waste sites,
£2 a visit has been mentioned, this will really encourage people to recycle.

 

They've done that around here, its really encouraged people to fill the hedgerows with mattresses & fridge freezers.

 

I've found some really useful stuff fly tipped in field gateways and have always helped myself, but have always been slightly concerned in case it was thought I was tipping it rather than help clear it.

Perhaps I'd get done for not be a licensed waste carrier, and taking it back home which isn't a licensed waste transfer station?

More clear cut at the local tip though, you can't take anything that would otherwise be thrown away into landfill or you'll get done for it and whoever lets you take it will get sacked.

 

I've had the same worries when collecting firewood Scrunge.

Waste management has got ridiculous in the UK, when I was trade, I wasn't allowed to use the recycling centres, it all had to go to landfill even if it could be recycled.

When will they admit that if more and more people are fly tipping then their waste management policy has failed?

 

I've cleared out many piles of fly tipped logs. At least I get given my pallets 'lawfully', but then again it's probably illegal for local businesses to give 'trade waste' for me to illegally dispose of by burning or making things with (just collected another three about 15 mins ago, that'll keep us nice & warm for a while).

 

We need a revolution.

 

Zigs, it doesn't say a lot for being ecologically friendly does it. I think once again it's greed behind this, the powers that be in the UK are trying to find more ways of making charges for waste and in the process have lost sight of recycling/waste management.

The method is simple here, what the householder can't recycle goes either to our recycling amenity sites or the incinerator. Builders waste is charged at £100 a ton but if it is household builders waste, that can be disposed of free with proof from the householder that it came from their property.

No fly tipping here!

 

Re picking anything up from fly tipping.
This summer a local scrap dealer was on the road looking for anybody that had any scrap they wanted rid of,he saw a exhaust laid on the road side so stopped to pick it up,as he put it on his van a police car pulled up.He was done for stealing by finding. He was told that anything laid on the road sides was the property of the local council. He was given a fine of £250 plus costs

 

That's ridiculous Fileyboy! And as the property of the council it would have been left there to rot!

 

Yes it just goes to show how daft things can get.Now nearly ever week there are scrap boys riding round the town looking for scrap,people just leave it on the grass verge and it's gone in no time and nobody seems to bother