Garden Waste

[floo]

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[Robbie]

My council (Bromley) charge £60 pa. They provide a large bin to put it in. It is emptied fortnightly for nine months of the year and four weekly for the other three months. Not bad, saves us the bother of taking it to the waste site.

[Aruntraveller]

We've been charged for at least 9 years. Can't remember the cost and I only paid it last month!

Anyway, worth it as Robbie says, saves you a lot of trouble.

[floo]

I put this on another forum and discovered that £30 is cheap compared with what some other councils charge.

[Robbie]

£1.15 a week for us in Bromley so 57.5p for you! If you think of it like that it doesn't seem so much & it's so convenient.

[Nearly Sane]

£1.15 a week for us in Bromley so 57.5p for you! If you think of it like that it doesn't seem so much & it's so convenient.

That's less than 1 drug test for 1 child a year

[Rhiannon]

Where I used to live, the green bin was for recycling. I move 2 miles away, it’s for garden waste and we don’t get a recycling bin at all.

Now I discover that this madness is countrywide. No wonder the country is going downhill.

[Rhiannon]

That's less than 1 drug test for 1 child a year

How many spliffs can you get for that?

[Nearly Sane]

How many spliffs can you get for that?

Depends who is rolling the garden waste.

[Robbie]

Keep off the Grass has taken on a new meaning.

[Rhiannon]

You could actually turn a profit by harnessing the heat from the composting garden waste to heat greenhouses for weed production. An environmentally sound solution all round.

[Nearly Sane]

You could actually turn a profit by harnessing the heat from the composting garden waste to heat greenhouses for weed production. An environmentally sound solution all round.

All reefer madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLuNx1fYKtY

[Robbie]

Marijuana a violent scourge aye? Great stuff.

You could actually turn a profit by harnessing the heat from the composting garden waste to heat greenhouses for weed production. An environmentally sound solution all round.

Thanks for the tip!

[Nearly Sane]

Marijuana a violent scourge aye? Great stuff.

Thanks for the tip!

Is it? Or was Anchorman just talking nonsense about his neighbour. We have a bizarre fucked up relationship with drugs but ignoring that strong cannabis may have a generally detrimental effect seems odd.

[Rhiannon]

Is it? Or was Anchorman just talking nonsense about his neighbour. We have a bizarre fucked up relationship with drugs but ignoring that strong cannabis may have a generally detrimental effect seems odd.

Cannabis-induced psychosis is a thing, and not something that is well understood. I guess it is like the way a few people really do lose it when drinking spirits while others are fine on them.

One thing I do understand from the meeja is that most cannabis now sold is skunk, and that is bad news.

[Nearly Sane]

Cannabis-induced psychosis is a thing, and not something that is well understood. I guess it is like the way a few people really do lose it when drinking spirits while others are fine on them.

One thing I do understand from the meeja is that most cannabis now sold is skunk, and that is bad news.

Agreed, even though I am suspicious of the meeja's portrayal.

[Maeght]

As from April 1st Flintshire CC are charging £30 per annum to empty our brown garden waste bins. Today was the first collection since the charge was introduced. I have paid the fee, but am not a happy bunny as the council tax has also gone up very significantly. I noticed that very few brown bins had been put out this morning, so I assume people are not prepared to pay to have their waste removed. I wonder where they are going to dump it?

Do other councils charge for the removal of garden waste?

Yes, £50 a year for a fortnightly collection

[SteveH]

Compost it!

[SteveH]

I tried composting our garden waste, and food waste, (mostly vegetable peelings) but it attracted the rats, I am phobic about  those creatures. I prefer to pay to have our garden waste removed.

Rats are attracted by meat and bones. If you leave them out and only add vegetable matter (including non-glossy paper and cardboard), you should have no problem with them.

[SteveH]

I did have a problem even though I only put vegetable matter along with garden waste in the bin.

What would be the point of putting meat or bones in a compost bin, not that we ever have any bones?

Meat rots as well!

[Rhiannon]

Rats are attracted by meat and bones. If you leave them out and only add vegetable matter (including non-glossy paper and cardboard), you should have no problem with them.

I had a rat problem and the pest control guy said that next door’s compost heap attracted them, because of the heat as well as potential food. Since then I’ve got myself a compost bin for veg peelings and so on (nothing cooked and I’m vegetarian anyway) but if the rats return, it’s going - I’m phobic too, although only wild ones - o like domestic rats. I’m hoping an enclosed bin is less likely to attract them but I did find a very sweet little mouse in it the other day.

[ippy]

Nothing extra here for our garden waste, they will even take two of our green garden waste wheelie bins, they empty them once a fortnight between the beginning of march till the middle of November.

I don't like the sound of paying a surcharge, probably just a matter of time.

Regards ippy

[Rhiannon]

Our bin was enclosed, although the bottom was on the soil, the rats came in from tunnels they had created under the bin!

I don’t think mine is big enough for it to be worth the effort. But we’ll see.

[SteveH]

Our bin was enclosed, although the bottom was on the soil, the rats came in from tunnels they had created under the bin!

You can get rat-proof ones, with a wire-mesh base.

[Rhiannon]

Whatever, but in future I will put the garden waste in bin and let someone else deal with it.

Do you have a food waste collection? If not what do you do with your veg peelings, egg shells etc?