Silly Car wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 8:20 pm
Been paying for the garden waste bin for 6 years, I think it was introduced sooner than that but I didn’t have a garden at the last house.
It works out around £4 per collection, I can’t be arsed to put garden waste in my car for that. It’d cost much more to get it valeted.
Just for convenience at the time,I threw cuttings from my Da's garden into the car to take to the dump. Never again.
BIG FUCK OFF SPIDERS HAUNTED THE CAR FOR WEEKS. Every morning the bloody thing was full of cobwebs front and back.
Yup we get charged 56 quid, started couple of years ago. Rarely use it especially in winter but saves me taking it to the dump. Still think it's a piss take though. Worse my neighbour often half fills it with his shitty thorn filled hedge cuttings. He does pay for his bin too just has too many horrible massive bush things.
Around here,West Lancs they've been charging us for our fortnightly green waste collection for so many years that I can't remember when it started.
One of my mate's works on the bin collection & says that they're now going to introduce a food waste bin as well as the current 4 bins .
Only just started the broon garden bin charge or 35 quid a year. I only have grass and deliberate over grown bushes. Grass cuttings stay on the ground to regenerate the grass and hedges are once a year so i bag that and take it to the tip when a customer pays for an uplift of garden waste. Recycle is still free as is the food bin what i will never use. Green landfill is still free but i am expecting that to change soon.
Bromley charges £65 a year (just gone up), which I happily pay. The tip is only 15 mins away but Sod's Law says the queue will be long when I need to go and I'll spend 30 mins queuing.
I have no problem paying extra, as lumping that into the council tax means some poor sod on the 6th floor of a block of flats is contributing to my garden waste collection.
We too have an understanding that if there's capacity in neighbouring bins we can fill them. Makes sense.
(That said, I do keep a tonny bag or two in the shed for when I get busy with the loppers and hedge trimmer. That, and a McCulloch shredder)
I assume because they can't increase our council tax bill mid term, they've come up with this sham, where paying a voluntary subscription of £56 a year to continue receiving a service we were already getting is a legal loophole to extract more money from us.
Probably to cover what they've wasted getting consultant's in to show them how to raise more funds. You've got to laugh a lot these days.
If I had any bins they'd be emptied free of charge at point of collection. I don't generate enough waste to bother having bins, I just chuck my stuff in spawn's bin. It saves the bin men* having to make another stop.
As to the tip I'm probably a net recipient of stuff, the chaps there are very tolerant of people taking stuff away.
*And another thing: When public service pay is mentioned and how they should all be paid a decent wage it's always nurses, teachers, etc. Never the bin men, street cleaners, hospital porters etc.
Dodgy69 wrote: Thu Sep 05, 2024 7:30 am
Probably to cover what they've wasted getting consultant's in to show them how to raise more funds. You've got to laugh a lot these days.
Well....that and the fact central government funding to councils has been consistently ramping down over the last 10 years, all while adult and child social care costs have been ramping up
2nd year of charging here. It's about £25 a year and I pay it even though I don't feel I should pay an additional charge on top of my council tax. But, aint no way I'm wasting my free time queuing up at the local tip. So my principals went in the first collection...
It’s £58 in West Northamptonshire Council. I don’t pay it as my grass cuttings fill about 1/5th of a black bag that goes in the normal bin about 4 times a year. I have a very small area of grass but it will be gravelled soon, then I won’t generate any garden waste.
Food bins have been here for years, my fat lazy neighbour leaves hers on the bottom step of the path that serves the other houses, which is downright dangerous, then leaves it there for about 5 days after it’s emptied. She’s too stupid to realise the danger she puts others in so I take a lot of pleasure in moving it to next to her car door if it’s not moved on the same day it’s emptied.
My recycling bin is always filled in the 2 week period between collections, so I consider I’m doing my bit.
Mick
Where I used to live, they charged for GB since 2012, and whacked it up every year.
Over here, they no longer do ANY bin collections where we live, you have to get a chip card which registers every time you use the non recyclable bin and charges you €4 a time, plus the €100pa to get the card. Recyclable bins are free to use.This also allows access to the tip, at €4 a time.
Surprisingly there has been a surge in fly tipping!
General waste once every two weeks and recycling the other weeks + garden waste brown bin at about £70 a year. They'll take batteries if they are put in a clear bag and attached to the recycling bin.
"Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?"
"My dear Doctor, they're all true."
"Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies."
General waste (black bin) weeks one and three, blue bin (cardboard) week two, brown bin (glass, metal and plastic) week four. Sheffield CC - all included in Council tax.
Every morning the bloody thing was full of cobwebs front and back.
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