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.
One need only look at last week's local election results to see how many are "stupid enough" IMHO Party Politics should be totally removed from Local elections. Every candidate should be Independent. Maybe folk would pay more attention to whom they're voting for ?
Delighted to say my local councilor is independent. Where we used to live,you always had to pay for garden waste friends in West Sussex and Essex have always had to pay and they only get the service part of the year. Ours is 2 weekly. We have 3 compost bins and a shredder,a 200 ft packed plot and we still sometimes haven't to go to the tip. We had regular service throughout lockdowns.
Our green bin collections are included in the council tax, but it's not all year, just March to November, fortnightly. Mine is usually full the first few times of the year with the stuff from the winter, then not much until the autumn when the lawn scarifying stuff goes in. I think if they started charging extra I'd do without and have a couple of trips to the recycling centre instead.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We pay £90 for two garden waste bins - full sized wheelie bins- which are collected fortnightly from mid March until mid November. We don’t always have to out both out and are aiming to just have one next year by upping what we compost at home. I think we would always have one as sometimes there are things we wouldn’t want to compost at home.
Our general waste is collected weekly but we only put the bin out occasionally as it has so little in it (maybe at most 25% full after three weeks as there is only two of us). Recycling is fortnightly and that goes out every time. We don’t have a food waste collection and I’m not sure how it would work for us. We compost what we can so it would only be the odd bit that’s bones/meat so very little to collect.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
We get weekly collection of garden/food waste at no additional charge. We also get free kerbside collection of textiles, batteries and small electrical appliances so we're very well served here!
I'm happy to pay for it (£30 per year, I think it was) but I would prefer it if they collected them a few weeks later than they do now. At the moment the last collection tends to happen before I manage to cut the hedge one last time, so I end up with a full bin sitting there over the winter and nothing to put in it for a few weeks in spring.
We get weekly collection of garden/food waste at no additional charge. We also get free kerbside collection of textiles, batteries and small electrical appliances so we're very well served here!
Hello @Singing Gardener Does your food waste go in the same bin as your garden waste?
Excellent re the other items, we have various boxes in the study which we take to the recycling centre when full. Plastic film goes to Tesco’s and we also have one for pens as Ryman’s will recycle them.
Just found out that Superdrug will recycle empty tablet packs - the plastic/foil popper bit (can’t think what it’s called). So that’s another box on the go - hubby is on heart meds so we get through quite a few.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
The tablet packs are a real problem I wonder how they recycle them and if they can be recycled why every council can't do it, maybe the government project to will make recycling consistent across England.
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One need only look at last week's local election results to see how many are "stupid enough"
IMHO Party Politics should be totally removed from Local elections.
Every candidate should be Independent. Maybe folk would pay more attention to whom they're voting for ?
We don’t have a food waste collection and I’m not sure how it would work for us. We compost what we can so it would only be the odd bit that’s bones/meat so very little to collect.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
I’m a bit worried though about ‘curb’ collections. We won’t have to take our waste to USA, will we? 😉
Excellent re the other items, we have various boxes in the study which we take to the recycling centre when full. Plastic film goes to Tesco’s and we also have one for pens as Ryman’s will recycle them.
Just found out that Superdrug will recycle empty tablet packs - the plastic/foil popper bit (can’t think what it’s called). So that’s another box on the go - hubby is on heart meds so we get through quite a few.
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham