Green bin charges .....

[IVECOKID]

My local council Halton Borough are from June charging £25 per bin for green waste ,do any other Councils charge ?

 

I am not really concerned at the moment has majority of my Grass customers are with Liverpool and Knowsley but going from feed back here very few are going to pay which will leave me with the dilemma of charging customers for taking waste away ...catch 22 .

 

 

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[NoRush]

They charge £30 our way. Something to do with Vioela and there secret deal with the council

[Chris Sheppard]

£27 a year here I think. We didn't bother as we've hardly any grass anyway so got a composter instead.

 

Made it a bit harder to get rid of other garden stuff but not impossible.....

[daveindales]

£17 for us

[Jpw]

£27 for us - but £32 if not paid by direct debit

[GlobalNewark]

We are at £25 but £35 now for new customers(Lincolnshire).

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Cornwall council charges:

 

Bin or bag options:

 

Buy the bag or bin - One-off purchase price

 

140 litre bin £16.21

 

240 litre bin £19.62

 

Reusable garden waste bag £3.57

 

 

Subcriptions for 2015/16 are:

 

2015/16 Annual collection charge

 

140 litre bin £22.50

 

240 litre bin £35.00

 

Reusable garden waste bag £16.50

[Billy Goat]

County Durham is the same £25 a year or £60 for 3 years.

 

I compost all my waste so told then to shove it, but pretty miffed when I keep my street clear of leaves in autumn and cut the grass in the council owned areas.

 

I have noticed there has been an increase in green fly tipping on the outskirts of my village too.

[eggsarascal]

How long has this charging for green waste bins been going on?

[openspaceman]

How long has this charging for green waste bins been going on?

 

I don't know but it was never in the remit of "household waste". Collection of green waste by councils was driven by the EU requirement to recycle a %age of waste collected from households. In the early days with multiple collection boxes and initially educating the public to recycle some bright spark in a council somewhere realised that a large scale composting plant counted as recycling. The output could be used as a compost and could be spread on various projects, Portsmouth called theirs portgro and the tree station at Croydon donated Croypost to the m25 road verges. This immediately upped the %age of the total waste collected that was recycled and targets were quickly met.

 

Nowadays with mechanical sorting of dry recyclables residual waste has dropped to ~30% of the total so no need of the expense of using green waste to boost the figures.