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Deskdiary | 11:21 Mon 13th May 2019 | Home & Garden
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We have a fortnightly rubbish collection and a fortnightly garden waste collection. This has been going on for about 10 years following the decision by the council to halve the collections from a weekly collection.

I have today received an email from the council telling me the garden waste collection will be becoming an opt-in service, and if I want to opt-in, it's going to cost me £100 a year.

My CT is just shy of £2,800 a year.

Am I the only one who finds this outrageous? Can I expect to have an 'opt-in' option at some point in the future for rubbish collection?
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This is outrageous.

If it's the case, i'll start putting my grass trimmings on the local pasture instead. Claim i'm helping them mulch.
People will just start burning it.
It's hard to burn the majority of garden waste as it's usually fresh. I've not yet heard about this in my local area though.

DD are you based around daventry?
My local council has been charging for collecting garden waste for a couple of years.
And I thought our council had a cheek asking £35 year!
Spath - It doesn't stay wet for long!
Garden waste here costs £30 per year for a weekly collection, but changing to fortnightly in November
£36 a year here, fortnightly collection.
I can't believe your council has been so slow to start charging for this. Of course you should pay extra for this luxury service.
we get a collection every 4 weeks and it costs 34 quid for the first 1 cu m bag and 17 50 for any extras..... They would rather people composted it at hime but every time I have run compost bins and heaps they have been colonised by rats...and no I don't put any food waste in, not even garden waste that is edible.
As far as i know garden waste is all perfectly good compost. The council should be charging me for my luxury clippings.
£50 a year for my fathers garden rubbish
Free for my garden rubbish
We don’t even have a garden waste collection lol
Not outrageous at all....we've had to pay extra for a garden-waste collection (every two weeks) since the service began several years ago. The argument being...not everyone has a garden or wants garden waste collected....those that do, should pay for it - otherwise, those that don't are subsidising those that do.
We pay £60 here in kent and have 4 compost bins could you not share with a neighbour?
Our local tip takes garden waste. Not much use if you don't have a car though.
I know a couple of people who share the bin and the cost. Would only work with small gardens
That's a good idea roo, share a bin with a neighbour if you both have small gardens
I would be lost without our brown bin - its full all year round

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