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

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I am contemplating paying.

We pay. I have no problem as we used to live in a first floor flat and I slightly resented subsidising people with gardens...

Our council are going to be charging for second (or more) green bin collections local Facebook group is outraged as usual.

It’s a one off payment here OP- no other payment options

Our council charge for it to be collected but we don't pay it we just dispose of it ourselves

I'm in London, with a minute garden, and wouid have to pay; but I take garden waste directly to the tip (which is v convenient to get to) and dump it for free. Maybe twice a year after the big spring and big autumn tidy-ups. Compost bin for between times and kitchen vegetative waste.

Kerbside recycling of Chiristmas trees isn't counted as garden waste here.

My first green waste bin collection is this Wednesday. I had to pay by end of November I believe and it was a one off payment (around £50) that I paid using their website and my debit card for the year. They take it every two weeks 3rd week Feb until 3rd week Nov I think so only 2 months without emptying. Mine is full now after a winter prune session. You can pay for two which costs about £80.

We’ve always paid-£4.75 pcm currently for fortnightly collections.

We pay just under £40 for fortnightly collections (per approx 9 months) one off payment

We pay. I have no problem as we used to live in a first floor flat and I slightly resented subsidising people with gardens

But there's lots of council services that are not needed/used by everyone (schools, libraries, parks, etc). Why is garden waste separated out when people have no choice whether or not to contribute towards the libraries or schools?

Sometimes it is more efficient to make the service free at the point of delivery and pay for it from council taxes. People with gardens are more likely to pay more council tax anyway, because in general these will be the higher band houses who have bigger council tax bills.

Making it cheap and easy to get rid of rubbish also reduces fly tipping. Making a garden waste bin an optional paid for service risks some people not having one and dumping their waste on a country lane somewhere.

We pay £50 per year and they only collect March to November so it’s fairly expensive for 12 collections (2 per month) but we need it as our garden is a good size.

Included in council tax here

We have a free weekly food waste and garden waste collection.

Alternate week green waste collection costs £55 a year ish.

Facebook is indeed up in arms about it.

I pay £35 per year for fortnightly collections. We don’t use it much in the winter months but feel we get good value just with our spring, summer and autumn usage. Bin is full for collection this week as I spent most of this weekend pruning, trimming and weeding.

I’m happy to pay it in the same way as my neighbours wouldn’t want it included in the council tax as with their artificial lawn and plastic plants they would use it.

Garden waste collections are not a statutory function for councils to deliver which is why they can/do charge for them. Councillors know they're popular so deciding to introduce charging is a brave/last ditch effort for budgets. My council is putting the price up to £43 for 26 fortnightly collections this year. This will make the whole service cost neutral.

I don't know all of a Council's statutory services but all other household waste has to be collected FOC currently. Different wastes have different categories which why bulky items are charged.

We don't have to pay but we definitely would if it was introduced. We have lots of garden waste and it would be worth paying rather than making multiple drips to the dump with it.

We share the costs with a neighbour as we don’t need to use it that often.

It’s £75 a year here.

£61.50 here. Shame I'd literally be physically unable to get in and out of the house with yet another compulsory full size wheelie bin on the front path designed to be accessible to wheelchair users.

So it gets burned or concealed in the bags of used cat litter in the general waste.

I think it £50 here but I stopped paying after the first year because the bins were never emptied on the day they were supposed to be. We don't have much garden waste so it either goes in the general waste or to the tip if we are having a run there.

All our bin collections - landfill, garden waste, tins and bottles, and paper and card are included in our council tax. The only bin they don't do round here is food waste.

Ours is included in council tax but only collected March - October.

I'd happily pay for them to collect year round as it's a pain that they stop collections just when there's lots of leaves.

We don't at the moment - our garden waste goes in the green wheely bin with the food waste. There is a proposal on the LA's agenda to discuss it and consult on it. From the comments that have already appeared on FB about the proposal, obviously the public are not in favour - so no doubt the LA will go ahead anyway! Flytipping is already an issue around here (rural area) so it will only get worse!

We pay £32.50 (one off payment) for 17 collections between April - November. I wish our council would introduce a food waste collection.

We don't have to and no, probably wouldn't pay as we don't actually live too far from the borough tip - we don't do that much gardening.

I would pay for food waste recycling if they started charging for that.