Council only bin sacks ?

Legacy_user

Having moved recently, our new council does not provide a wheelie bin service for garden waste ( along with others I know), but it is something we have been used to. It is necessary to either take it to a tip yourself (neither of us drive) or purchase brown paper sacks from the council at £1.10p each and then they will take it away on collection day.

Our new house has a full garden and as we are approaching the season when much of it will require heavy pruning, I envisage needing to use about 6/10 sacks fortnightly.

The council say they have instructed their bin men to only pick up "their" sacks on not others, due to it being a cost effective measure etc.

I was wondering, in this day and age, can they really force this? is there any way I can challenge this ruling?

Freddie_Snowbits

Yes. It is not household waste.

Chimpofdoom

Save yourself some cash and compost that garden waste and any other bio-degradable food waste, then feed your plants next season

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cyberbob

Hire a skip. As freddie the council only have a legal responsibility to collect household waste so they can charge for anything else.

Big_Melons

Here in Broxbourne we have "purple sacks", we can only buy them from the council and they cost alot more then black sacks from a supermarket but thats the rules, they will not pick up any other sacks, not even purple ones a neighbour found cheap a while ago as they dont have the council logo on them.

neilmcl

You were lucky your old Council provided a free garden waste bin, this isn't the norm. If they do offer this service most councils usually make a nominal charge, for example mine charges us £35 per year for the service and £10 for any additional bins.

deanos

neilmcl wrote: »

You were lucky your old Council provided a free garden waste bin, this isn't the norm. If they do offer this service most councils usually make a nominal charge, for example mine charges us £35 per year for the service and £10 for any additional bins.

All the councils around here collect garden waste for free in the brown wheelie bin, they sell it on i believe to make compost

4743hudsonj

Our council is fantastic in this respect. We get a black bin collected fortnight for general waste, a grey bin for garden waste and cardboard etc, blue box for metal and plastic and a red box for paper collected on the alternate fortnight to thermal bins. All free and part of your normal collections.

deanos

Our council is very good too, luckily we don't have to muck about with boxes we put cardboard, plastic, metal & glass in the one wheelie bin

bella*donna

neilmcl wrote: »

You were lucky your old Council provided a free garden waste bin, this isn't the norm. If they do offer this service most councils usually make a nominal charge, for example mine charges us £35 per year for the service and £10 for any additional bins.

Our council is the same, £36 a year for my service. But our nearest tip is 15 miles away, so we find it better to pay for collection.

Evilm

you could try offering up the green waste for collection on Freecycle? Don't know if there would be any takers but maybe there would be someone who has an allotment or a need for composting materials.