Local recycling centres
Discussion
Chris Type R said:
Central Bedfordshire has introduced charges for garden waste bin collection £55 pa (or rather for 9 months).
The sentiment online is largely negative - I think that a lot will end up in the general waste bins.
It's a charge I'm resigned to paying as I feel we personally get value from the bins (2 properties). Carting garden waste to the not so local dump does have a cost in fuel, inconvenience, and time.
We have to pay for garden waste here, I strongly disagree with it, I know some people live in flats so don’t get to use it etc, but where do you stopThe sentiment online is largely negative - I think that a lot will end up in the general waste bins.
It's a charge I'm resigned to paying as I feel we personally get value from the bins (2 properties). Carting garden waste to the not so local dump does have a cost in fuel, inconvenience, and time.
Thankfully the old boy pays for it next door as he loves a bit of gardening and is happy for me to top his bin up once he gives the nod
I found that if I play garden bin roulette they will randomly take it, but then occasionally they slap and angry tag on the bin
This coinciding with extra red tape is probably going to lead to more fly tipping
Side note I am looking for a spare wheelie bin as I have noticed that a few houses out more than one out and seems to get taken.
I think most councils charge for garden waste collection. They do in Oxfordshire.
I don't have a garden waste bin, I think its £16 per quarter or something, however I have a large garden refuse sack and just take it to the tip/local recycling.
As I have to go anyway fairly regularly for car related stuff its no big deal. But really £55 across 9 months is a couple of quid a week, It'd cost you that in fuel to the recycling centre.
I don't have a garden waste bin, I think its £16 per quarter or something, however I have a large garden refuse sack and just take it to the tip/local recycling.
As I have to go anyway fairly regularly for car related stuff its no big deal. But really £55 across 9 months is a couple of quid a week, It'd cost you that in fuel to the recycling centre.
Dynion Araf Uchaf said:
I think most councils charge for garden waste collection. They do in Oxfordshire.
I don't have a garden waste bin, I think its £16 per quarter or something, however I have a large garden refuse sack and just take it to the tip/local recycling.
As I have to go anyway fairly regularly for car related stuff its no big deal. But really £55 across 9 months is a couple of quid a week, It'd cost you that in fuel to the recycling centre.
For me it’s the inefficiency of it, the truck is going along picking up bins from house 1 3 7 22 38 39I don't have a garden waste bin, I think its £16 per quarter or something, however I have a large garden refuse sack and just take it to the tip/local recycling.
As I have to go anyway fairly regularly for car related stuff its no big deal. But really £55 across 9 months is a couple of quid a week, It'd cost you that in fuel to the recycling centre.
Whereas house 2 4 5 6-21 23-37 etc are hiding it in normal waste or driving to the tip
I appreciate that I don’t know the ins and out of real costs etc
Chris Type R said:
Central Bedfordshire has introduced charges for garden waste bin collection £55 pa (or rather for 9 months).
The sentiment online is largely negative - I think that a lot will end up in the general waste bins.
It's a charge I'm resigned to paying as I feel we personally get value from the bins (2 properties). Carting garden waste to the not so local dump does have a cost in fuel, inconvenience, and time.
My local council also introduced a £50 charge for garden waste this year and although the sentiment was also negative 2/3rds of the people in my street have signed up to pay.The sentiment online is largely negative - I think that a lot will end up in the general waste bins.
It's a charge I'm resigned to paying as I feel we personally get value from the bins (2 properties). Carting garden waste to the not so local dump does have a cost in fuel, inconvenience, and time.
The trouble is that with the design and layout of my garden I only had the bin previously collected at most half a dozen times a year and that was usually just grass clippings or leaves from the council trees that surround the house, so £10 a collection seems a bit poor value for money but can I be bothered to take the waste to the tip which is only two miles away but is always quiet with no queueing... decisions.
The leaves from the council's trees I might just sweep into the street and let them deal with them!
borcy said:
I'm surprised there's anywhere left that does a proper garden bin collection for free.
Here they have removed the high usage public waste bins near the shops and from bus stops - these probably need emptying every other dayThe nicer parts still have the bins, but these are fortnightly
It’s no surprise that the rougher shop area is a total mess now. The church and other community place now do weekly litter picks, random people do it randomly.
The council provide you with sticks and blue bags, that you leave near certain points and they collect it
Invariably the foxes rip the bags open and then the council send out their waste team and you’ll see them picking it up as it blows around
Truly truly bonkers, but I guess cuts are a hard one to work out when there is only so much in the pot
I suspect they want everyone to take their litter home, which the good sorts do.
Wokingham area have been charging for a number of years for green waste, not sure how much as my wife sorts it (maybe £60 PA?). It's a totally different collection to our regular waste, being once a fortnight on a different day. They seem to carry on right through winter too, which seems a bit pointless as there is rarely anything to go in right in the depths of winter.
Our local recycling centre still does the booking routine that started during lockdown, but I don't mind this as it seems much quicker this way rather than joining a queue like before. I tend to go during the week anyway when the choice of slots is always plentiful, having done at least a dozen trips since I retired less than two years ago as I gradually clear things out of the loft, various DIY leftovers, etc.
Our local recycling centre still does the booking routine that started during lockdown, but I don't mind this as it seems much quicker this way rather than joining a queue like before. I tend to go during the week anyway when the choice of slots is always plentiful, having done at least a dozen trips since I retired less than two years ago as I gradually clear things out of the loft, various DIY leftovers, etc.
Spare tyre said:
Chris Type R said:
Central Bedfordshire has introduced charges for garden waste bin collection £55 pa (or rather for 9 months).
The sentiment online is largely negative - I think that a lot will end up in the general waste bins.
It's a charge I'm resigned to paying as I feel we personally get value from the bins (2 properties). Carting garden waste to the not so local dump does have a cost in fuel, inconvenience, and time.
We have to pay for garden waste here, I strongly disagree with it, I know some people live in flats so don’t get to use it etc, but where do you stopThe sentiment online is largely negative - I think that a lot will end up in the general waste bins.
It's a charge I'm resigned to paying as I feel we personally get value from the bins (2 properties). Carting garden waste to the not so local dump does have a cost in fuel, inconvenience, and time.
Thankfully the old boy pays for it next door as he loves a bit of gardening and is happy for me to top his bin up once he gives the nod
I found that if I play garden bin roulette they will randomly take it, but then occasionally they slap and angry tag on the bin
This coinciding with extra red tape is probably going to lead to more fly tipping
Side note I am looking for a spare wheelie bin as I have noticed that a few houses out more than one out and seems to get taken.
I do however with an issue with local authorities closing some local tips and expecting people to drive many miles to find another.
Spare tyre said:
Dynion Araf Uchaf said:
I think most councils charge for garden waste collection. They do in Oxfordshire.
I don't have a garden waste bin, I think its £16 per quarter or something, however I have a large garden refuse sack and just take it to the tip/local recycling.
As I have to go anyway fairly regularly for car related stuff its no big deal. But really £55 across 9 months is a couple of quid a week, It'd cost you that in fuel to the recycling centre.
For me it’s the inefficiency of it, the truck is going along picking up bins from house 1 3 7 22 38 39I don't have a garden waste bin, I think its £16 per quarter or something, however I have a large garden refuse sack and just take it to the tip/local recycling.
As I have to go anyway fairly regularly for car related stuff its no big deal. But really £55 across 9 months is a couple of quid a week, It'd cost you that in fuel to the recycling centre.
Whereas house 2 4 5 6-21 23-37 etc are hiding it in normal waste or driving to the tip
I appreciate that I don’t know the ins and out of real costs etc
The garden waste truck is a completely different service than general and recyclable waste which in itself has to be sorted and put in the correct bin.
I have no issue with sanctioning people that are too lazy to sort their rubbish.
KTMsm said:
Anyone who complains about minor fees or inconvenience hasn't hired a skip recently, circa £300 !!
Having paid for a few over the last couple of years, I do find myself walking past skips parked up in driveways tut-tutting when I see how poorly they've been loaded and/or how much free space has been wasted. Chris Type R said:
KTMsm said:
Anyone who complains about minor fees or inconvenience hasn't hired a skip recently, circa £300 !!
Having paid for a few over the last couple of years, I do find myself walking past skips parked up in driveways tut-tutting when I see how poorly they've been loaded and/or how much free space has been wasted. My skip was about 1/3 full with rubble and. Ricks, but I’d neatly organised it, so probably would have been 1/2 full if I’d just slung it in.
I then invited my good neighbours to fill it with appropriate waste, they are more logical than me. Loads of bricks and slabs went in
When the skip fella arrived he commented on the neat packing, but also said people like me were bad for business - he prefers lazy builders slinging stuff in from 5 yards
Nomme de Plum said:
They won't easily around here as every bin is checked before loading.
Really? The go through four or five black bags in every general waste bin to check it's contents in case you've concealed a bag of grass clippings at the bottom of the bin?It must take them a while to get their route finished. Most bin men I've noticed are hardly eco-warriors looking for contraband, they are (probably) on minimum wage and just want to get their shift done as quickly as possible.
I could put a chopped up corpse in a black bag in my bin and they'd never notice.
Senex said:
Nomme de Plum said:
They won't easily around here as every bin is checked before loading.
Really? The go through four or five black bags in every general waste bin to check it's contents in case you've concealed a bag of grass clippings at the bottom of the bin?It must take them a while to get their route finished. Most bin men I've noticed are hardly eco-warriors looking for contraband, they are (probably) on minimum wage and just want to get their shift done as quickly as possible.
I could put a chopped up corpse in a black bag in my bin and they'd never notice.
Every so often I do see bin men having a Quick Look in the bin, but I suspect they have a spidey sense when they move it
I mainly use the one in maidenhead and its been fine. They most often check if you live in the Borough.
It's a bit ridiculous that each area has its own standards, processes, checking if you can use that one. It should be a national standard and you can go to any of them its insane!
In ruislip they closed one I used to use in the past. When I did up my first place I had the old bath in the back of a Luton. The man wouldn't let me in with the van so my dad suggested bribing him which I did and I got in
really bad but really tickled me.
I haven't been for a while I don't know if my local is charging but as you say they make it too hard to use these things its a false economy.
After I had cleared all the old gravel off my garden the guys at Harefield told me I can't dispose of it there. Thankfully that was the last trip of probably well over a ton of the stuff. Someone else would just dump it somewhere.
It's a bit ridiculous that each area has its own standards, processes, checking if you can use that one. It should be a national standard and you can go to any of them its insane!
In ruislip they closed one I used to use in the past. When I did up my first place I had the old bath in the back of a Luton. The man wouldn't let me in with the van so my dad suggested bribing him which I did and I got in
really bad but really tickled me.I haven't been for a while I don't know if my local is charging but as you say they make it too hard to use these things its a false economy.
After I had cleared all the old gravel off my garden the guys at Harefield told me I can't dispose of it there. Thankfully that was the last trip of probably well over a ton of the stuff. Someone else would just dump it somewhere.
Dynion Araf Uchaf said:
I think most councils charge for garden waste collection. They do in Oxfordshire.
I don't have a garden waste bin, I think its £16 per quarter or something, however I have a large garden refuse sack and just take it to the tip/local recycling.
As I have to go anyway fairly regularly for car related stuff its no big deal. But really £55 across 9 months is a couple of quid a week, It'd cost you that in fuel to the recycling centre.
Welcome to pistonheads where everyone is a multi directorship holding millionaire with houses you can drive round yet also is very tight when it comes to paying for such things as Sky TV and disposing of waste. I don't have a garden waste bin, I think its £16 per quarter or something, however I have a large garden refuse sack and just take it to the tip/local recycling.
As I have to go anyway fairly regularly for car related stuff its no big deal. But really £55 across 9 months is a couple of quid a week, It'd cost you that in fuel to the recycling centre.
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