Brown Bins

Wychavon Council are going to issue garden waste bins at a charge of �£27 per annum. Am I missing something here :confused: Surely to have garden waste you must have a garden,and no matter what size or design,the space to make a compost heap/container in some form or another....

 

What are they classifying as garden waste Nick? Is it compostable material or hard woody stuff? And I would want to know why there is a charge in the first place!

 

We have had brown bins for ages.
I love mine.
Great when you are cutting back woody trees.
As long as it grows they will take it.
We have dug up tree roots and put them in the bin.

 

http://wychavon.whub.org.uk/home/wdc-refuse-recycling-garden-waste
I just don't see how you can create more waste than can be composted at home...Blimey,I even take the waste from my two kids gardens and always accept donations of grass cuttings from neighbours in lean times to keep my bins topped up..

 

I pay �£29 for mine I think off hand.
I put prunings in the winter and things like couch grass and bindweed in the summer in mine.
Saves having so many bonfires which are always frounded upon.

 

Ours don't cost more than what we are already pay in council tax. To get another one I was going to suggest you just lose one and find it again once a replacment was delivered.

 

Thats why you pay sooooo much council tax, mate. :D

 

:D :D

And Pete...you could use the 'Clat' method of burning,as we say around these hills!

 

Perhaps I'm thick or not with it.
Explain please.

 

Build a wood fire,throw on your 'bad' weeds and cover the lot with soil. Tend as a kiln fire,that's only smoke but no flame.
I've known big autumn dig 'clat' fires to smoulder for days,leaving only a collapsed heap of red roasted soil.

 

It is the smoke that people dont like.
A good quick burn up at the right time tends not to cause a problem.

 

The fire isn't meant to smoke much at all really,in fact the idea is to add soil to the areas where the smoke escapes, but not smother the fire within.
Trust me Pete..they do work and won't stink the Avenue out :D

I do prefer a good blizzy too...when folk are saftly tucked up of course!

 

I think I'll stick to the bin, mate.
I've got used to it now, I do my best to fill it up so as to get my moneys worth. :D

 

I must agree with Paladin. It seems an awful waste taking stuff out of your garden in a brown bin, then going down to the garden centre and buying bags of compost to replace it.

I put virtually everything into black bin bags, and leave for a year or two to rot. The pleasure of bin bags is that you can move them about easily and inspect them. If they are done use them as mulch, if not leave a bit longer. I add all twigs and small woody stuff, after all many people use wood bark chips as mulch. I also add my old newspapers torn into strips - but not the glossy advert/mags. Only thick wood, tree roots, Dandelions and Lesser Celandine tubers go in the ordinary waste (we don't have brown bins).

 

I wouldn't change my bin for composting.
You get all the rubbish moved away within a few days.
No smelly fires
No unsitely bags of rubbish left about your garden for months on end.
Everything is nice and tidy, just as I like it to look.
All the stuff thats taken away gets composted down and used on the local area.