Garden Waste Collection Con

[Deskdiary]

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?

[spathiphyllum]

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.

[ummmm]

People will just start burning it.

[spathiphyllum]

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?

[spathiphyllum]

Only reason i ask:

https://www.daventrydc.gov.uk/living/waste-and-recycling/garden-waste/

[dannyk13]

My local council has been charging for collecting garden waste for a couple of years.

[andres]

And I thought our council had a cheek asking £35 year!

[ummmm]

Spath - It doesn't stay wet for long!

[goodgoalie]

Garden waste here costs £30 per year for a weekly collection, but changing to fortnightly in November

[roopower]

£36 a year here, fortnightly collection.

[Hopkirk]

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.

[woofgang]

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.

[spathiphyllum]

As far as i know garden waste is all perfectly good compost. The council should be charging me for my luxury clippings.

[Rockrose]

£50 a year for my fathers garden rubbish
Free for my garden rubbish

[Smowball]

We don’t even have a garden waste collection lol

[gingejbee]

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.

[pond50]

We pay £60 here in kent and have 4 compost bins could you not share with a neighbour?

[ummmm]

Our local tip takes garden waste. Not much use if you don't have a car though.

[roopower]

I know a couple of people who share the bin and the cost. Would only work with small gardens

[spathiphyllum]

That's a good idea roo, share a bin with a neighbour if you both have small gardens

[Rockrose]

I would be lost without our brown bin - its full all year round