Ours is an annual cost of £76. The bin costs another £44 but is delivered free of charge.... Although you buy the 240 Litre bin, they state it remains the property of the council.
As with the other household waste and recycling bins we have, you have to replace them at your cost if lost or damaged.
(I resent that a bit, as we treat and care for our bins well, but the bin men treat them roughly and badly.).
I noticed some people have the smaller half size bin but cannot find a price for them so maybe they no longer do them.
Green waste from private properties remains free to deposit at the local (Tip/Dump) Recycling Centre for now. But you do have to register as a local Council tax paying resident, by giving your car registration details. You have to book a slot each time you wish to use the "Recycling Centre" for any reason. A man now sits in a little booth and checks you in.
My other half does this online as and when needed, but I find it annoying and inconvenient not to be able to think I have free time and nice weather for raking up leaves or trimming hedges, up early, fill car and soon as full and off to tip.....
He or we may need the car to do other things. Now I have to think ahead and possibly store stuff until the next day so any bags I fill need covering with a tarp, you can bet the bottom of bags will get slugs, worms and woody hogs on. So cleaning them off another PITA. If it rains the bags can get wet, and loading the car with soggy stuff makes it damp. Even with a plastic sheet to protect it, I would rather be able to organize my excess stuff for a dry day and not several days or a week later.
First world problem? Yes that is where I live and I wish to be able to use that "privilege" We pay one of the higher end Council tax rates.
The take up rate, not sure what it is but around 60 properties in main routes and cul de sacs nearby . 6 Bins, two of which are the half sized ones . Next two cul de sacs up I think another 2 or 3 bins maybe.
I feel very fortunate that my green bin is emptied alternate weeks from March until October with no charge. We can also use the local tip although we now have to book a slot. Not difficult to do though.
The question of grass makes quite a big difference re bin collections and compost making. For me, no grass means less compost possibilities and less in the waste bin. I would think that if you had grass to cut and you composted all household paper and card, just those two things together could generate quite a huge amount of compost. Without grass I now struggle to get enough greens from my small garden (as I want to be able to compost all my paper).
I have a large garden but most of it is either lawn or narrowish borders. I have nowhere to compost the amount of grass clippings I create from just one mowing of the lawn. I would expect the first cut of the lawn, even on the highest setting to nearly fill the garden waste bin.
As far as Green Waste is concerned, I seem to recall someone on here saying that their green bin collection was refused on 1 occasion as it was too heavy. I think it was mainly grass clippings in the bin.
I think I mentioned it here once. There was so much grass because they had missed our road for 2 consecutive collections, so there was 6 weeks worth of grass clippings in it. I managed to bring the bin from our back garden to the kerb, but the bin men seemed to be too weak and feeble to wheel it to the back of their lorry. They don't even have to lift it, that's all done mechanically. I ended up taking some out and putting it in black bags, and put the black bags in the non-recyclable bin. That was collected the following week.
KT53 Our council have said that if you put garden waste in the general household waste they will refuse to empty the bin. I'm not sure how they would know if you put it in black bags. Also what if you live in a flat and have a dead bunch of flowers to get rid of?
I think dead cut flowers can count as household waste. 👍 Here, too, garden waste should not be put in the black bin, and if the green bin is too heavy, they refuse to empty it. When I had a tree pruned and all the bits shredded, the residue easily fitted in the green bin, but the weight was too much to all go in at once. We can't put in any soil or compost, so if you are discarding roots, you have to wash these clean first.
As far as Green Waste is concerned, I seem to recall someone on here saying that their green bin collection was refused on 1 occasion as it was too heavy. I think it was mainly grass clippings in the bin.
I think I mentioned it here once. There was so much grass because they had missed our road for 2 consecutive collections, so there was 6 weeks worth of grass clippings in it. I managed to bring the bin from our back garden to the kerb, but the bin men seemed to be too weak and feeble to wheel it to the back of their lorry. They don't even have to lift it, that's all done mechanically. I ended up taking some out and putting it in black bags, and put the black bags in the non-recyclable bin. That was collected the following week.
@KT53 Glad I wasn't just imagining stuff Now you mention it I do recall you saying about missed collections hence the amount of grass in the bin. Glad you managed in the end.
I think dead cut flowers can count as household waste. 👍 Here, too, garden waste should not be put in the black bin, and if the green bin is too heavy, they refuse to empty it. When I had a tree pruned and all the bits shredded, the residue easily fitted in the green bin, but the weight was too much to all go in at once. We can't put in any soil or compost, so if you are discarding roots, you have to wash these clean first.
The supposed restrictions on what can go in the green bin are the same here. They even specify the maximum diameter of branches! I very much doubt anybody sticks to those rules and will put the dubious stuff in first and then top off with a good thick layer of grass clippings. So I'm told anyway.
I certainly don't understand the restriction on spent compost when the materials are going to be turned into compost anyway. Expecting council rules to make any sense is pushing things anyway.
Our green bin rules say you can't put soil/compost in, but a small amount clinging to roots is OK, so knocking off the bulk of the soil is fine, no need to rinse. What they don't want is people trying to get rid of large amounts of soil/compost in their green bin.
Spent compost is useful stuff anyway (mulch, lawn topdressing, fill up the bottom of deep containers, mix with fresh stuff/fertiliser and reuse, etc). It's a waste to throw it away.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Spent compost is only useful if you have somewhere to store it until needed. We have lots of pots and baskets, but none are so large that they need old compost to part fill them. What am I then supposed to do with the old compost. For scale of the issue, I used between 3 and 4 large bags of compost per year, in literally several dozen pots and baskets.
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The bin costs another £44 but is delivered free of charge....
Although you buy the 240 Litre bin, they state it remains the property of the council.
As with the other household waste and recycling bins we have, you have to replace them at your cost if lost or damaged.
(I resent that a bit, as we treat and care for our bins well, but the bin men treat them roughly and badly.).
I noticed some people have the smaller half size bin but cannot find a price for them so maybe they no longer do them.
Green waste from private properties remains free to deposit at the local (Tip/Dump) Recycling Centre for now.
But you do have to register as a local Council tax paying resident, by giving your car registration details.
You have to book a slot each time you wish to use the "Recycling Centre" for any reason.
A man now sits in a little booth and checks you in.
My other half does this online as and when needed, but I find it annoying and inconvenient not to be able to think I have free time and nice weather for raking up leaves or trimming hedges, up early, fill car and soon as full and off to tip.....
He or we may need the car to do other things.
Now I have to think ahead and possibly store stuff until the next day so any bags I fill need covering with a tarp, you can bet the bottom of bags will get slugs, worms and woody hogs on. So cleaning them off another PITA.
If it rains the bags can get wet, and loading the car with soggy stuff makes it damp. Even with a plastic sheet to protect it, I would rather be able to organize my excess stuff for a dry day and not several days or a week later.
First world problem? Yes that is where I live and I wish to be able to use that "privilege"
We pay one of the higher end Council tax rates.
The take up rate, not sure what it is but around 60 properties in main routes and cul de sacs nearby .
6 Bins, two of which are the half sized ones .
Next two cul de sacs up I think another 2 or 3 bins maybe.
I have a large garden but most of it is either lawn or narrowish borders. I have nowhere to compost the amount of grass clippings I create from just one mowing of the lawn. I would expect the first cut of the lawn, even on the highest setting to nearly fill the garden waste bin.
I think I mentioned it here once. There was so much grass because they had missed our road for 2 consecutive collections, so there was 6 weeks worth of grass clippings in it. I managed to bring the bin from our back garden to the kerb, but the bin men seemed to be too weak and feeble to wheel it to the back of their lorry. They don't even have to lift it, that's all done mechanically. I ended up taking some out and putting it in black bags, and put the black bags in the non-recyclable bin. That was collected the following week.