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Post by X201 on Jun 13, 2022 12:56:07 GMT
Green bin licence?
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Post by Dougs on Jun 13, 2022 13:01:54 GMT
Some authorities collect your green waste to save you going to the tip. For a price of course.
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Post by X201 on Jun 13, 2022 13:18:16 GMT
Ours does that, but we don't need a license for it.
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Post by mrpon on Jun 13, 2022 13:33:33 GMT
Wow! Thought green collection was standard across the board! Can imagine a lot of people bailing on that.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 13, 2022 13:35:01 GMT
Our council are a bit shit. They don't even do food waste collection and only do recycling collection once a fortnight. There's a third party service around here for garden waste which works out at something like a fiver a month, so well worth it even if it should be really be covered by the already extortionate council rates.
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Post by robthehermit on Jun 13, 2022 13:38:13 GMT
Our "lawn" is about 10ftx10ft. It takes longer to get the mower out than it does to cut. I say lawn, it's probably a 50/50 split between grass and dandelions.
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Jun 13, 2022 13:39:55 GMT
Ours is free once a fortnight. Can't you just sneak it in the normal bin ?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2022 13:42:28 GMT
My garden refuse bin collection renewal is coming round again. It's just short of £50 for the year. I grudge it. particularly as I've had my bin filled and emptied precisely once since I last paid £50.
Hmph.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 13, 2022 13:52:58 GMT
Its not much, like 20 quid a year. They say its to, basically, judge demand. Obviously not everyone will want/need garden waste taken away and the ones that do probably dont need it done very often, so they dont want Homer Simpson levels of garbagemen on green duty if they dont have to.
And, yeah, I do accept that explanation so im not that arsed to have to slap a sticker on my bin every May.
EDIT: They also take away small animal waste so we can put all the guinea pig/mouse shit and bedding in there, which is nice.
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Post by X201 on Jun 13, 2022 13:55:59 GMT
Ours is every two weeks from April to September.
It used to be longer, but the Tories removed four collections and offered them back if you paid for it.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 13, 2022 14:00:01 GMT
Ours is year round which, like I say, is useful for the animal shit, so I suppose the 20 quid gets us that extra six months.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 13, 2022 14:13:35 GMT
Fuck, the robbing bastards here charge £96 for the year! For a fortnightly collection!
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Post by rhaegyr on Jun 13, 2022 14:15:23 GMT
Fuck, the robbing bastards here charge £96 for the year! For a fortnightly collection! We get the same service for £36 for the year. /Yorkshire |
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Post by KD on Jun 13, 2022 15:10:41 GMT
Free here for monthly garden waste collections, I'd imagine it has something to do with being in a long time labour run council. They are corrupt as fuck for listed buildings burning down over the years when the only one left standing has a petrol station across the road.
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Post by Danno on Jun 13, 2022 15:16:18 GMT
Fuck, the robbing bastards here charge £96 for the year! For a fortnightly collection! Can't you just stick it in the Solent? |
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Post by EMarkM on Jun 13, 2022 16:33:51 GMT
Cheshire East, for once, haven’t done a bad job of recycling.
No extra charge on top of Council Tax. We have a bin for recycling: metal, glass, paper and plastic. A bin for all garden and food waste. A third bin for general non-recyclables.
Collected fortnightly, they even gave everyone what we call “Tidgy Bin” for the kitchen, which is lined with compostable bags (which we buy from the supermarket) as a temporary holding bay for the food waste, until we take it out to the main garden bin.
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Post by mikeck on Jun 13, 2022 23:37:31 GMT
We have six different bins, across three different collections. It's a faff, but they take everything at least (no charge for garden waste).
Box for cardboard and cartons
Box for paper and glass
Big bag for plastics
Bin for food waste
Wheely bin for standard rubbish
Wheely bin for garden waste
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Post by 😎 on Jun 14, 2022 0:08:18 GMT
Isn’t all this what the hired help is for?
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Post by jeepers on Jun 14, 2022 6:47:51 GMT
I love Brighton Council’s thoughts process. We have a bin for general household waste and a bin for green waste. One of the bins is black and the other is green.
Guess which one the green waste goes in? Clue: It’s not the green one.
That’s some next-level “Fuck you-ism”.
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Post by nexus6 on Jun 14, 2022 6:54:17 GMT
South of Glasgow we have 4 wheelie bins
Blue is paper/card
Green is plastic/glass/tins
Brown is food/garden waste
Grey is all else.
Brown goes out every week with one of the others on rotation so each 3 weeks.
The council stopped offering garden waste collection in the brown bin for free so now you have to pay 40 quid a year and put a sticker on the bin otherwise it’s a whole big bin just for food waste.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 14, 2022 6:55:54 GMT
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Post by H-alphaFox on Jun 14, 2022 7:19:34 GMT
Your refuse collection discussion is making me hard.
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Post by barchetta on Jun 14, 2022 7:20:24 GMT
I figured that our brown bin (food waste - uncooked, and garden waste) goes towards the local council’s composting for the flower beds, parks etc. Mutually beneficial, though I’m not sure how much they need, rest goes to some sort of energy creation and I think they used to sell it back to locals too. Kind of a holding fee, if you will.
We don’t see any bill as such, other than being lost in the overall Community Charge.
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Post by barchetta on Jun 14, 2022 7:21:13 GMT
Your refuse collection discussion is making me hard. Gah, and now my slow and oft edited reply looks like it is goading you on. |
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Post by nexus6 on Jun 14, 2022 7:21:27 GMT
The rotation element works quite well actually. The blue and green and grey are generally full when going out which is ideal.
There used to be only grey and brown bins and the rest in bags or boxes so double the bins means the garden isn’t set up for it.
But I resent the extra tax in having to take the brown bin out
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Post by H-alphaFox on Jun 14, 2022 7:34:01 GMT
Your refuse collection discussion is making me hard. Gah, and now my slow and oft edited reply looks like it is goading you on. Continue, please. Everything here is communal bins and they took our once every 3 months doorstop garden waste collection away and made it appointment only with the result being I now often have to drive around to find a bin that is not full of garden waste or building rubble to put my household waste in. And their response is to install security cameras to catch the culprits instead of offering a fucking service that works. |
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Post by cubby on Jun 14, 2022 12:11:08 GMT
I love Brighton Council’s thoughts process. We have a bin for general household waste and a bin for green waste. One of the bins is black and the other is green. Guess which one the green waste goes in? Clue: It’s not the green one. That’s some next-level “Fuck you-ism”. At least it's moved on from "put your bags out on the street, and hope the seagulls haven't mauled them before the binmen turn up", so there is some progress. |
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Post by dogbot on Jun 14, 2022 12:17:17 GMT
Here in the sticks*, we have three bins. One for non-recyclable rubbish (green bin), one for recycling (black bin) and one for garden waste (brown bin).
The brown bin is charged yearly at 80 quid for a fortnightly collection, but considering that they've failed to collect it one time in two for the last year, it actually works out about twice that.
I've spoken to the council about refunds for each time it's not collected. Typically, they said that is down to their contractors and out of their control. Tbh, the bin isn't marked and is left in a row of bins in a nearby street, so I'm tempted not to pay. They won't check anyway and they're not exactly providing value for money, so...
* it's not REALLY the sticks but to a city boy like me, a town of 10k really does feel like it.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Jun 14, 2022 12:18:28 GMT
Do none of you pay council tax?
Paying these weird fees to privateers and opportunists to come collect your trash.
They probably scour it for identity theft docs and discarded Polaroids to pleasure themselves.
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Post by Danno on Jun 14, 2022 12:19:33 GMT
We get everything free, even old furniture etc, you just book a pick up date and stick it out front on the day.
Which makes the rampant fly tipping 300 times more infuriating and baffling.
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