Local Council of Amersham now charging for garden waste disposal

peter_the_piper

I think what is confusing is that household waste is on the rates. Garden waste , only collected fairly recently, is extra.

mojito

peter_the_piper wrote: »

I think what is confusing is that household waste is on the rates. Garden waste , only collected fairly recently, is extra.

I dont believe what I am fed on paper through experience.

Johno100

My local council is intending to make a £35 charge from next year. It will be a box of Swan Vesta and my trusty old incinerator for me when they do.

custardy

mojito wrote: »

makes sense to me - again in the minority and happy. No time to get involved and make a change - REALLY !!!

I like the dumping idea - same as what I do with the junk mail Royal Mail continually post through my door with no address I mail it return to sender. Even though we went online to stop this. Who pays for that all this leaflet dropping - we do when we buy stamps.

I can hear dogger sensing a bigger issue :T

No,the companies who pay RM to do it.........

SailorSam

battleborn wrote: »

It dont seem that expensive per year to get rid of the waste, i would have no problem paying, i think its a good offer.

So if you're Council wrote to you tomorrow and said if you wanted any waste collected you were going to have to pay for it. One payment for the 'green' bin; one payment for your recycling bin, and a third payment for your normal waste.

FOREVER21

I have read these posts with interest and perhaps those who are facing a new charge would be interested to hear what happened in North Tyneside.
Our mayor decided to introduce a £20 charge for garden waste collection previously collected free of a separate charge.
The response was that only a handful of residents agreed to pay, others said they would not take part in the scheme and were to return the bins to the council. Some even said they would fly tip the garden waste.
Result the council had a rethink, and decided to drop the idea of a charge, those that had paid were refunded.
People power seems to have won the day!The downside to the story is it is estimated that the whole exercise cost in the region of £25K for the council in advertising the scheme collecting and refunding money.
Will they ever learn?

mojito

FOREVER21 wrote: »

I have read these posts with interest and perhaps those who are facing a new charge would be interested to hear what happened in North Tyneside.
Our mayor decided to introduce a £20 charge for garden waste

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for the council in advertising the scheme collecting and refunding money.
Will they ever learn?

It makes you wonder why they never ask in the first place - if we were to go with the general consensus given previous they would get a majority vote and take it further. If it makes less sense I have worked on it projects that wasted tons of 'private' company money. Is it ever really wasted if it gets respent ? I guess the i.t. industry has been an economy and we have to accept the way in which it works.

The id card 'scandal' more fiasco was a shame in light of where this money could have been spent. And such little thought had gone into it as emerged. Anyway digress but why not in this part of the forum.

The interesting piece for me is that no one commented on the local councils hiring 3rd party companies. I guess at least they are getting some cash out of the cows that I feel they are.

:cool:

Tenyearstogo

mojito wrote: »

Whats next ? the rubbish - we are heading there folks.

Where does my council tax go ? They want 35 quid per year to collect the waste. If this isnt annoying enough when I see the local council employing contractors to look after lawns and hedges its a bit much. You cant tell me this is a temporary cheaper alternative. They are simply cash rich in a time when no one else is but seem to be unregulated.

The council in question is Amersham - disgusted with the British rip off again.

:mad:

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My local council only do the lawns and hedges during the summer months. Surely it's better to pay contractors for those months than employ people all year. You have to factor in holiday/sick/maternity/paternity pay and pension into that.

Tenyearstogo

If I had to pay extra for garden waste I'd put it in my rubbish bin for landfill.

browneyedbazzi

mojito wrote: »

I like the dumping idea - same as what I do with the junk mail Royal Mail continually post through my door with no address I mail it return to sender. Even though we went online to stop this. Who pays for that all this leaflet dropping - we do when we buy stamps.

No, we don't and I don't understand how you could think we do. Companies pay Royal Mail to deliver the 'junk' mail and the money generated from this helps keep Royal Mail afloat and keeps the service available for all of us...and cheaper than it would be if Royal Mail didn't have that income stream to bolster revenue. If RM didn't deliver 'junk' mail we'd be paying more for stamps, not less.