Brown Garden Bin From Local Council £20

irnbru_2

nodwah wrote:

You can go to the depot and fill an 80 litre bag of the resulting compost for £1 - haven't tried it yet, really must give it a go.

East Renfrewshire or Glasgow?

nodwah wrote:

We're in East Renfrewshire now and previously were in Glasgow, where there was no Garden waste collection

It's probably district specific but the brown-bin garden-waste collection has been in my district for about 2 years.

squiggle37

thanks to this thread it got me thinking.......just rang the council and spoke to someone from re cycling and he told me we should have brown bins as he has got them down to have them, i also mentioned that no one on this side of the road has, hes going to look into this and get back to me i took his name and gonna ring him again next week if i dont hear anything, fingers crossed we get the same bins as them over the road it would save me from going to the re cyling centre every week

bunking_off

Sounds like our council's positively generous then...though I'd viewed it as providing the service paid for by Council Tax.

We're on a fortnightly cycle.

Week 1
Grey wheely bin for non-recycling - strictly no overflow
As many blue bags as we like for paper

Week 2
Brown bin for garden waste
4 x stacking green boxes for cardboard, plastics, glass, metal - happy to take any overflow.

On the brown bin, we're allowed to collect a few bags of the resultant "soil improver" for no charge from a local garden centre once a year.

System

Three different coloured bins for garden waste, household waste & recycling items, now it seems we're to have a fourth, for textiles.

What niggles me is when people leave them in their front gardens as a "feature". It is true mine reside by the side of the house, but I cut away a section of thick hedge, erected a fence panel and made sides, then housed the bins in their own pen. I section of 4ft high trellis covers the front. yes we know they're there and so does everyone else, but at least they're not "in your face".

Errata

Any more ideas for designing a front garden around council bins, boxes and bags of many colours? Mine will soon look like a Daleks convention !

scbk

All you get here is 1 wheelie bin....if you want to recycle then it's up to yourself to take the glass/cans/paper to the centres. Place I used to work at sold standard size (240ltr) wheelie bins for £5 less than the council, and we were still making a healthy enough profit

heather38

we only have a black weelie bin but my mum has:
black bin for rubbish
blue bin for plastic/glass/tins
green bag for paper
red bag for textiles
brown bin for garden waste (but not fruit & veg waste)
compost bin.
cardboard waste has to go to the tip.
black bin is weekly as is paper the rest is fortnightly.
she only lives 4 streets away from me!
i have to take all my waste to the various bins at the tip which is a pain but i go once a week when i do my shopping as its behind the supermarket.

lil_me

We get a free 'green bin' for garden waste, fruit and veg waste etc. Anything compostable. Collected fortnightly. We have a teeny box for glass, paper and cans which is collected fortnightly. Also free. Then the weekly normal waste collection, also free. Saying that seems they are all changing the way collections are made. Wish they had recycling for plastic and cardboard!

nodwah

irnbru wrote: »

East Renfrewshire or Glasgow?



It's probably district specific but the brown-bin garden-waste collection has been in my district for about 2 years.

Irnbru, the compost depot is at Wm Tracey's yard in Lugton, if you know the Paraffin Lamp it's maybe a mile beyond that. (A736?)

Yeah it was probably about 2 years ago that I'm thinking of with the brown bins in Glasgow - they put the bins in Arden (of Colin and Justin fame) and not in say deaconsbank or southpark. Presumably they have them now

computerwoman

my bin when finally turned up after 2 phones and asking for my money back has been the best £20 I have ever spent, it is invaluable, I would not have thought that I would use it that much, but got sick of all the bonfire's, so it is invaluable to me, and full every 2 weeks when it's bin day, worth every penny.
cw.