£40 a year saved on bins

maxmycardagain

Stopped paying to have our brown bin emptied, weve hardly any garden and a big black bin....

baser999

All bins free here in LB Greenwich - black, green, blue

Brie

We'd have to pay about £80 a year for a garden bin but being close enough to the tip and having transport we've not needed to so far....

Teapot55

I’m not sure what I would put in a brown/ garden waste bin if we had one. 

We compost dead plants, dead heads, the leaves from pruning and the grass cuttings from our tiny patch of grass. 

The sticks from cutting back the raspberries we strip the leaves from and compost and the sticks themselves either go in a heap in the corner where they eventually rot down, or, if they’re very long and straight we store them on the shed roof and use them as plant supports next year. 

Would be interested to know what others use a brown bin for. 

subjecttocontract

Our garden bin is green. We compost lots of stuff but put most grass, tree & plant cuttings in our green bin......we have a large lawn front & back, bin costs £50 a year.

Abbafan1972

Our garden bin is brown. The collections run from March - December. When the collections started it was £35 and has crept up. This year it’s £60. That’s Birmingham City Council for you unfortunately. 

Teapot55

My dad had pretty big gardens front and back with fruit trees and lawns and shrubs. 

Guess what I’m saying is there’s savings to be made by having compost heaps/ bins to suit the size of the garden and not having a brown/ green bin for garden waste to be collected by the council. 

He had several compost heaps made from old packing crates. They were at various stages of decay and didn’t show from the house as they were hidden out of sight at the end. He also had storage for dead leaves so he could make his own leaf mulch and a separate compost container for all the grass clippings. 

He even bought an electric garden shredder for the bigger bits. 

subjecttocontract

Yes that's ok if you are a keen gardener and want to spend time dealing with all of that stuff. We arent, we have little interest in gardening and have a gardener who deals with that. Our interest is limited to looking at the garden and sitting out in it when weather permits. He doesn't want to take all of the rubbish/cuttings away with him so a collection service is ideal. £50 a year sounds reasonable to me.

Torry_Quine

The only thing that goes in my garden waste bin is when I empty my food waste caddy into it. That's taken away free but £30 if you use for the garden. It's all year round.

maxmycardagain

i can see the council realising bin income is falling so they will charge for the metal/plastic/paper blue bin....

collecting metal used to make them money, then the prices fell and now it costs them money

they dont take ALL plastics ... ours has very little in it but they still run a truck round the route plus another truck for the brown bins, one wonders about the ecological profit in sorting the plastics at the cost of a 10mpg truck (2 on that day)

35har1old

subjecttocontract said:

Our garden bin is green. We compost lots of stuff but put most grass, tree & plant cuttings in our green bin......we have a large lawn front & back, bin costs £50 a year.

In my aera all bins are included in the charge
Green bin is garden food and shredded paper waste
Emptied fortnightly all year round