We don’t pay for any rubbish or recycling bin collections in Wales. Although that’s like saying you get ‘free’ telephone calls on a £50 per month contract.
Well it's not free as we pay council tax.but our Brown bin was "free" until a year ago.now it's about 35 quid a year.and I do mind paying for it as I pay so much tax on everything else.and the tip is still appointment only which means fly tipping has gone thru the roof.and a neighbour a few doors down just puts rubbish in her front garden where it gets rained on and rots.rant over!
When I pay for my bin to be collected,I hope that they will make a profit and I also hope that this money will be used wisely. Our local council has given no indication so far of being corrupt. Hopefully, this is not because they haven't been caught out yet
£65 a year here for a fortnightly garden waste collection. We do get a free weekly food waste collection in small brown bins, most of which ends up sprawled around the streets by the foxes.
It shows once more how useless this government really is. They go for the easy headline of "free" following the savage cuts to local authorities after a decade of austerity. Who needs libraries and other services when you feel you get something for free...and unfortunately some people are stupid enough to believe this rhetoric.
I'm slightly confused by 'garden waste' - I can't imagine wanting to lose any soil or plant material from the garden ...
Those without composting space or inclination can have a lot of stuff to shift out of the garden. I have a large amount of hedge clippings to shift (beech, holly, ivy, pyracntha etc) each year as I don't have a shredder and only have small compost bins, for a small terrace garden. Green waste collections don't usually take soil, sand or gravels; ours don't, at least.
Some of us only have small gardens and no garden storage space.
We get a reminder every year and if we sign up on line we get a (small) discount. Fortnightly collection. I don't mind paying cos getting OH to have 'big dirty bags' of e.g. chunky lumps of the camellia that will eventually succumb to my ministrations in the car and having to book a place at the tip AND he really hates wearing masks....
The article says that the government are looking at making all household recycling collections more consistent across England, 65% of authorities now charge for green waste collection, they hope that this move will reduce the amount of green waste now going to landfill by 25% and may also have an impact on fly tipping. There would be a limited free collection which would be subsidised by the Government which would still allow councils to charge for additional collections. It is estimated that free collections would deliver a saving of 793 kilotonnes of CO2/year equivalent to taking 176,000 cars off the roads.
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Our local council has given no indication so far of being corrupt. Hopefully, this is not because they haven't been caught out yet