do you have to pay for your garden waste collection? or will you?

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I am contemplating paying.

Already have to pay and have done for quite a while - 6/7 years?

Yes we pay £60 for the year- u can pay for stickers and special bags from local libraries and use those instead to be cheaper but I know I wouldn’t actually bother. A couple of my neighbours share a bin and split the cost.

£40 a year, definitely worth it as it saves countless messy trips to the local tip.

They charge in our area but we don't use it. We either compost/shred or burn it.

Ours is due to be £50 per year,
not much if taken weekly.
how is money taken?

Our garden waste is free, well included in council tax. We have a brown bin that is collected fortnightly between March and October and monthly in the winter months.

We don't have food collection though, but we can get a home composter for vegetable matter for £5/10 and our non recyclable waste is incinerated in a waste to energy plant, so doesn't go into landfill anyway.

We had to pay the full £60 in one go, which I found annoying. Luckily we paid this month during the council tax break so wasn’t a struggle to find the money.

Ours is 40 quid.seems reasonable. Fortnightly plus Xmas tree collection

We pay £35 a year, it's collected once a fortnight. I don't begrudge it, I'd only have to go to the tip otherwise,

Our council is starting to charge £40 per green bin per year.
I do a heck of a lot of gardening and generate a lot of waste.I also live next our local councillor who introduced the charge and am sorely tempted to have lots and lots of bonfires. I do compost but not enough to use up all of my waste.
I see the £40 as the slippery slope towards more charges as well as increasing the newly introduced ones further down line. However I will succumb and pay as I don't want to be antisocial or trailing down the municipal tip every weekend.
Our local FB forum is full of people threatening to dump or hide their garden waste.

Ours is about £70 a year paid as a one-off, for fortnightly collections in a wheely bin. I use it quite heavily for shrub cuttings and perennial weeds, anything I can't compost.

They say they wont take garden waste, Initially I was just going to bag it and bin in but occasionally we do a big prune

i might have to decide when i know how the payment is taken. i wont be happy with a one off

or lump-sum rather.

Yes £40

Yeah its 84 per year

Also where we are there's a waiting list for licences as there are a limited number, so if you don't renew but then change your mind you will have to wait.

We do. I think it's a stealthy way of increasing the council tax as it used to be included. I know lots of people won't but it's easier than taking stuff to the dump (& greener, you could argue).

I suspect you live in the same area as me & have just had a letter from the council!!

Interestingly DEFRA are planning for all garden waste collections to be free & for every council to do separate food waste collections.

www.gov.uk/government/news/government-sets-out-plans-to-overhaul-waste-system

Yes £40. I pay it because last time I took garden waste to the tip I ended up with a car full of spiders and nearly crashed.

We used to have separate food/ garden waste collections but now it is a combined collection every 2 weeks - both go in the brown bin. Council provides compostable food waste bags for the indoor caddy

Forgot to say we don't pay for collection

About £50 in one go. I allocate £4 a month in bank account once the initial payment was made. Fortnightly collections in wheels bin which I do find worth it as loads of shrubs plus hedges and trips to the tip are hard work dragging it all up steps.

We pay £40 and have done for years. But a lot of villagers refuse to pay it and instead light bonfires which is infuriating and completely dominates the parish council meetings.

I can't see why it's not part of the council tax and everyone pays it. The average bill for most homes around here is £3k anyway, what's £40 on top of that.........

We don’t pay here - just put it in the normal recycling bags and it gets collected every week.

We are in Wales, where recycling is infinitely less onerous than in England.