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

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I am contemplating paying.

£40 per bin per year here. Collected fortnightly. We have 4 and could easily fill more.

It's been chargeable for quite a few years here (I'm guessing 6 or more?)
think it is about £45 - £50. We don't do it, so not sure exactly.

The council stopped collecting garden rubbish about 6 years ago here. No option to pay, just no service at all.

I’d pay if the service was available.

£40 per year here. As we're about 15 miles from the nearest tip it's far more convenient than driving over there every time we cut the grass.

£60 here, for fortnightly collections Feb-October. It's a bit hit or miss though and once you have a brown bin they do keep taking it whether you've paid or not, so...

We get weekly food waste collections. And have no less than five bins on our driveway. It doesn't look like a recycling centre at all.

We pay £55 for a fortnightly collection which only stops for one collection over Christmas. We are given a wheelie bin for the garden rubbish so lots can be got in. It saves trips to the tip and battling with branches, twigs etc poking out of plastic bags.
No food waste service in this area though.

Same as Lonicera (everything free through council tax but no food waste service), although reading this thread I’m wondering how long that will be the case if the council don’t have a statutory duty to collect garden waste.

I think ours is £60 a year for a weekly collection - we don't pay as we still have the bags from when it was free, and only need to do 5 or 6 garden waste runs a year (mostly after the autumn leaf fall) and the tip is only 5 mins away.

our area are starting to charge from this month and I refuse to pay. I get charged enough in council tax - the council have decided to outsource the collections to another town nearby (hence the charge) and I don't see why I should pay for their poor decision making.

I would much rather use the bin as a composter, or get a compost bin for the grass/food waste - even taking it to the tip would be much cheaper (factoring in fuel and bin bags) than paying the collection fee!

We have to pay £50 a year here and IIRC they don't collect for 3 months or so over the winter. I don't have a garden anyway so don't need to use it, but it did used to be free until a couple of years ago.

We also used to get free waste food collection and the council gave everyone kitchen caddies and waste food bins, encouraged everyone to use them, then cancelled the service as there was some change in how it was all composted. I was left with a large bin full of rotting food, in a heatwave with no transport (don't think the tip would take it anyway due to the change) when they cancelled it with no notice! I ended up puking when I had to empty it into my normal bin, having no other choice. Urgh...

Garden collections are chargeable in our area, and limited to one small green wheelie bin. Our garden is too big for the collection to be enough so we compost soft waste, stack bigger prunings for the log burner and burn the rest in a garden incinerator.

Garden waste and food waste are collected together here, and no charge and there was a lot of grumbling about having to now pay £1.20 for a roll of food waste bags which were previously free.

I would be really annoyed if I were expected to pay but I'm sure charging will come in eventually.

Free here, we have 3 bins, waste, recycling and green go alternately each week. We wouldn't pay if we had too as we are minimal gardeners

they charge an annual fee in our area but I seriously doubt the bin men come along with a little list of how many bins they collect down each road or check if no 36 has paid for emptying that year, they just get it done.

We have a plastic lane that you attach to bin handle which show you’ve paid.
No label and they don’t empty

That would be label 😆

Bromley have a large bib collection on each fortnight throughI The season and restricted off season to once a month - about £60a year. For us it’s a gift. No more car loads to the local dump and a much tidier garden as dh wants his money worth.

Ours is just over £30 - a bargain really before you even compare to posters paying more than double on this thread.

Ours is £60 this year (an increase of 20%) and I'm still deciding whether or not to pay. They collect twice a month for nine months, once a month for the other three and the Christmas tree, which is very handy.

I don't have a big garden but, like a PP, to get my money's worth I make sure to cut the grass once a fortnight. I could put grass in the general waste but, occasionally, I do trim branches and I wouldn't want any insects taking up residence in the car on special trips to the dump.

I'll have to make up my mind soon.

no, not yet. we have year-round fortnightly kerbside food waste collection and it all goes in the same 'green waste' bin.

However, our council were early adopters of 3 weekly non-recyclable collection, so to get this through without rioting had to make concessions re recycling collections.

Our food waste goes in with our garden waste and gets collected every fortnight.

Our gardener also comes once a fortnight and any twigs/sticks/branches etc he takes and puts them through his chipper.

Ours was free until last year, when they charged £25. This year they’ve put it up to £30 a year.
We were all moaning, but looking at the prices PPs are being ripped off for, maybe we should shut up and count ourselves lucky!

Charges were introduced here last year. About 35 quid for fortnightly collection but no collection bewteen nov and march (same when it was free). No separate food collection.

Dh was adamant we were NOT paying for it and he would go to the tip (which is not easy to get to from where we are). I thought we should suck it up purely from a convenience point of view (we have a lots of lawn and there's only so much composting i can do).

He lasted a month before caving in and agreeing to pay.

I pay. I can't remember how much but it's for a fortnightly year round collection.

I started out not paying (it used to be free) but didn't last long when I realise I couldn't be arsed to go to the tip. Well worth it!

Yes, before they didn't offer garden waste at all. If you don't want to pay you can still take it yourself here of course