having to pay for an extra bin - wirral borough council!

kingfisherblue

I'm in St. Helens and an additional bin can be provided for families of six or more, or for households that have a disabled person living there, if more waste is produced as a result of disability. We have had an additional bin for eight years and there was no charge then, but I don't know if there is now. We received the bin because I have a disabled child and the additional waste was nappies and bottles of pre-packed prescribed high calorie milk. This was before we had any doorstep recycling. Now we have a hazardous waste collection for the nappies and we recycle the plastic bottles. The second bin is a half size one and we rarely use both. Some weeks we put out the larger bin and other weeks we use the smaller bin.

Tehya

DaisyFlower wrote: »

I agree, even though with two adults we would likely be worse off it was a much fairer system. Same charge per adult is much fairer.

I agree things could be fairer but going back to the poll tax days isn't the answer.

Take my brother and his wife, they pay one lot of CT for a six bed home for his family of ten (they had 3 multiple births).

My husband, adult son and I live now pay one lot of CT on a two bed house in the same area. Understandably we pay less than him as we have a much smaller home and household.

If they re-introduced the poll tax we would pay three lots of poll tax whereby they would only pay two this would be grossly unfair as I know who uses more resources, i.e. extra rubbish, health services, education, and it's not us.

paddedjohn

Tehya wrote: »

I agree things could be fairer but going back to the poll tax days isn't the answer.

Take my brother and his wife, they pay one lot of CT for a six bed home for his family of ten (they had 3 multiple births).

My husband, adult son and I live now pay one lot of CT on a two bed house in the same area. Understandably we pay less than him as we have a much smaller home and household.

If they re-introduced the poll tax we would pay three lots of poll tax whereby they would only pay two this would be grossly unfair as I know who uses more resources, i.e. extra rubbish, health services, education, and it's not us.

now that is taking it to extremes, most housholds dont have 10 people in them. if the poll-tax was re-introduced and given a chance to run for a while without all the kneejerk reactions and riots like last time, then people would realise how fair a system it is.
why should a single person in a 6 bed house pay any more than a couple in a 2 bed house? its wrong. they are using half the facilities of the couple but are penalised because they have a bigger property

huffyharry

Glasgow City Council charge £47, this is for the 1st bin.

nogginthenog

The charge should be £37....For a extra 250 ltr of Bin capacity On The Wirral.