How much should we expect to pay, for disposal/removal of 10 tonne bags of wet leaves/branches?

Danny_G

Got about 10 tonne garden bags of leaves/ thin branches/ ivy from the wall and garden.

We want to dispose of it by paying somebody with a van/ or a gardener who does that as a job to make some room.
Even if they turn it into a mulch,

The bags will be in the front, so easy loading for them to come and collect

Want to get rid of it ALL quick, without it lingering on.

The bags will be in the front, so easy loading for them to come and 

Want to get rid of it ALL quick, without it lingering on.
and we need the Tonne bags back, so they will put the leaves branches and ivy in their vehicle and take it away to wherever.

What kinda of price range would we expect to pay for somebody to take this all away for us, and dispose of it?
and if you are a gardener/ landscaper how much would you charge for this?

and what alternatives are there?  (shred it all, get the green recycling bin people to collect it, which will be slow as only have a limited capacity)

[Deleted User]

Why not hire a van for half a day and take it to the tip?

George_Michael

Do you have a local amenity tip / recycling centre where you can take it? The ones near to me are all open during the current lockdown.
I bought a couple of empty aggregate bags from Jewson ( they are about £6 each and last for ages) and these take an awful lot of garden waste and fit in the back of many cars:

coffeehound

Have you checked whether your council would remove it?  Their website will advise on pricing if so.

Hasbeen

You have about 11 tons of garden waste? Wow! big garden.   If that big burn it. Not tree hugging but cheaper LOL.

Or to be green! take it to tip if open? hire van for a day. but recycling centres around here will not let vans / pickups in?

So its all dumped in laybys etc. Must be cheaper for councils to then send people out to pick it all up?

cattom

my grandad would of burnt it and dug the ash in to his potato patch.

Ectophile

cattom said:

my grandad would of burnt it and dug the ash in to his potato patch.

Burning soggy leaves will produce a massive amount of pollution.

getmore4less

Do you mean 10 bags of the 1 tonne size filled with relatively loose garden materials

Get a shredder that will be be 1-2 bags and will compost.

Anyone  near you into composting garden waste.

George_Michael

Danny_G said:

and we need the Tonne bags back, so they will put the leaves branches and ivy in their vehicle and take it away to wherever.

That's something that you have to be careful of and make sure that the "wherever"
Where they take it to is somewhere that they have permission to leave it and more importantly, make sure that they are licenced to actually collect and dispose of the waste.
If they aren't and they get caught fly tipping and the waste can be traced back to you, you face the possibility of getting prosecuted.

fenwick458

Ectophile said:

cattom said:

my grandad would of burnt it and dug the ash in to his potato patch.

Burning soggy leaves will produce a massive amount of pollution.

how will it produce more pollution compared to burning dry leaves?

neilmcl

Why not ring around your local "man with a van" operations for a quote. Can't see it being anything more than £50-£100.