How much does your council charge for green bin (garden waste) ?

[Dave7]

Our charge is £39 per bin but £42 if I do it over the phone. Last year thier Web site wasn't working so I had to phone up and they STILL charged me £42. I argued like crazy but they wouldn't budge.

 

[Sterlo]

Ours is still free at the moment, although I'm expecting them to start charging in the new year or so. Collections are also all year round, I know most of the charging councils do something like March-November? By the way, our bin is brown, green is for standard everyday waste.

 

[Beebo]

This made me look it up.
It’s £65 or £60 by direct debit. That’s a lot more than I thought.
That’s for 26 collections a year, it’s only every other week. So more than £2 per collection.
It does seem like a total rip off but we do use it a fair bit.

 

[Dadam]

Ours are free (well, charged in with normal collections), collected every fortnight. Stops for winter (think it's November-March as Sterlo says).
Brown bins, green are recycling and black is normal waste.

£39 per bin is ridiculous! I wouldn't pay that, I'd just have a very large compost heap!

 

[fossyant]

No extra charge over CT.

 

[Mo1959]

£40 here.

 

[wiggydiggy]

£45 last time I checked. I don't use it, I bought a composter at a reduced rate from them when I moved in. Its yet to produce any useable compost but I've been able to get rid of all garden waste in it.

 

[All uphill]

We have two composters and two compost heaps. They produce masses of lovely compost.

Very reluctantly we are moving to a compost wheeliebin for £65 a year to reduce the digging I have to do as arthritis progresses.

 

[PeteXXX]

£58 here in Hamtun. Up from £56 last year.
That's for 25 collections (fortnightly, but no collection the week after Christmas last year.)

 

[richardfm]

In Cardiff it is free, collected every other week from April to October and then once or twice during the winter

 

[Alex321]

Ours started charging last year.

It is £20 per year for up to 8 bags per fortnight - these are large green canvas bags, reuseable, which they empty into the truck and return.

If you don't want to pay that, you can take it yourself to the main council recycling centers for free (ours is 7 miles away, so not too great a cost in diesel, we take it up when we have a car full).

 

[Alex321]

In Cardiff it is free, collected every other week from April to October and then once or twice during the winter

Tht was the same in the Vale until the middle of last year.

 

[Electric_Andy]

£52 in Plymouth. We probably won't use it this year in our new home, as once we've had a thorough weeding session in the garden, we probably won't use it very much. We'll take it to the recycling centre in bags. For the rest of the year we only have a 3mx3m patch of lawn

 

[oldwheels]

We have no such bins. Garden waste can be taken to the main dump about a mile away as can anything else and put in the appropriate container. I made lots of compost in the past.
No charges.

 

[Mike_P]

£46.50, fortnightly collections started last Friday until early December.