It's a puzzle that not all councils operate the same system for collecting waste, but I think it makes sense when some charge for garden waste collection if the area is urban with a majority of properties with no garden. Those who say they don't pay for collection are in fact already paying for it via their council tax, and people who live in homes with no garden don't need that service.
If they charged for it around here it would just get dumped in the woods. I mean some green waste still gets dumped in the woods despite the collection service being free but there's just no helping some people.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I pay £84 pa for 2 green waste bins collected every 2 weeks and also have 3 compost bins on the go. If the green waste bins are full and we've got lots of hedge cuttings, OH goes to the tip - which is a right pain in Bath as it's tiny and the queues usually stretch along the main road in both directions. They are planning to move it right out of Bath which will mean even more traffic across the City. Not sure what the solution is.
I get the impression that in our area, the people who look after their gardens are likely to use the brown wheelies. The people who would be likely to dump stuff don't look after their gardens and therefore don't generate garden waste. I suppose household waste must be free or monitored. Dumped stuff seems to disappear within a couple of days.
This is such a big topic - great points being made.
I cant help thinking that we have made massive progress in the last decade or two, and this will surely continue (surely?). Remember the kitchen bin gone by - food waste stinking the bin out and the possibility of ‘bin juice’ leaking out 🤢 I can’t remember what we did we garden waste - the odd tip trip and whatever we could cram in to the dustbin?
We are largely tied to our local council’s facilities and ‘rules’ - why these differ so much is a bit bewildering. My garden waste collection is ‘free’, but my council tax is quite high. Similar to ‘free’ phone calls on a £40 per month tariff?!
(I have edited out my rambling about how we all pay into the ‘pot’ for services we either don’t use, or over-use).
In my young days we had yards, no green stuff. Those that did burnt everything in the back garden then buried the ashes in the garden or put ashes in the metal bin. No waste.
I wonder how much of our garden waste would disappear if more people emulated nature and used the cut and drop method for recycling garden materials. After all nobody rakes up all the leaves in a forest yet we are not wading through shoulder high piles of the things. I have a line of about 15 beech trees which have been dropping leaves for over 60 years yet there is only about an inch or so of leaf mould on top of the soil after each winter which then breaks down to a very thin layer.
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It's a puzzle that not all councils operate the same system for collecting waste, but I think it makes sense when some charge for garden waste collection if the area is urban with a majority of properties with no garden. Those who say they don't pay for collection are in fact already paying for it via their council tax, and people who live in homes with no garden don't need that service.
The system here works as follows:
recyclable waste - including food - every week.
non-recyclable waste twice monthly.
garden waste twice monthly.
I suppose household waste must be free or monitored. Dumped stuff seems to disappear within a couple of days.
I cant help thinking that we have made massive progress in the last decade or two, and this will surely continue (surely?). Remember the kitchen bin gone by - food waste stinking the bin out and the possibility of ‘bin juice’ leaking out 🤢 I can’t remember what we did we garden waste - the odd tip trip and whatever we could cram in to the dustbin?
We are largely tied to our local council’s facilities and ‘rules’ - why these differ so much is a bit bewildering. My garden waste collection is ‘free’, but my council tax is quite high. Similar to ‘free’ phone calls on a £40 per month tariff?!
(I have edited out my rambling about how we all pay into the ‘pot’ for services we either don’t use, or over-use).