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

[HoraceCope]

I am contemplating paying.

We pay £54 a year per bin I have 3 as have a large garden.

About 60 a year. Plus a one off charge for the bin. It's collected fortnightly from April to October. I'd rather it were included in the council tax as there are a lot of bonfires here and it's a v residential area so v annoying. I can afford the bin but plenty can't.

I can't see why it's not part of the council tax and everyone pays it

That’s fair on people who live in blocks of flats....

Councils apparently are not obligated to pick up garden waste. Charging a nominal fee, seems like a sensible compromise

It's included in the council tax here. It used to be collected fortnightly between March and October but now it's fortnightly all year round.

Yes, they also take straw newspapers hay poo etc, God send with rabbits £50per year but would rather they added it to the council tax instead of a one off payment in April

We’ve been paying for years. £25 last year, which seems like a bargain now I’ve read the thread. It’s a bit of an arse to get to the tip so I don’t mind.

We pay now. But only £25/year. I don’t mind, only houses have gardens so it’s away of charging for a service that doesn’t affect the poorest which has to be good.

Our is £36 a year and collected once a month. We live in a terrace with a really small yard so we split it with our neighbour.

Ours is charged, I can't remember how much it is per year. When you pay they post a sticker with your address on so the refuse collectors can see you've paid. No sticker, no emptying.

I do have compost bins but I don't want them totally filled with grass clippings so I do use it. It's rarely full but that doesn't matter.

Some years the council has offers on if you choose to pay for garden waste collection. One year it was 50% off any plant at a local garden centre, we got a tree

Our LA has just passed a resolution to start charging. Until a year or so ago it was collected for free weekly, garden waste and food waste in one. Then it went fortnightly, and from this winter we'll be paying £65/year, which works out at £2.50 per collection - quite a lot when you think most of the winter there will be nothing to put out. At the same time, they are reintroducing weekly collections (free) for food waste so I think many, many people won't bother to pay and either won't do their gardens, will burn or dump waste or will be CFs and ask to use neighbours' bins. I have never seen the local Facebook group so red hot!

Thing is, either they charge specifically for the collection (which is a collection not everyone needs or wants) or they increase the council tax. Or cut something else.

We pay £42 per brown wheelie bin (we have 2) collected fortnightly, year round.

We don't have food waste collection.

Free are the black bins for general waste, only one per household, collected fortnightly. Green bins for recyclables (incl glass), no limit to how many, collected fortnightly.

We have a large garden with lots of hedges/trees and fill the brown bins pretty much every week. We were also allowed to put in small animal bedding (rabbits straw/hay) when we had them.

Where we used to live the brown bins were free thankfully - even though we only had a small lawn there, we had 12 crab apple trees bordering our garden from the farm next door - bloody things filled the bins on their own. I'd have been making the farmer pay!

£65 on 1st January, collection is fortnightly. There is quite a long waiting list.

Yes just signed up

A charge was introduced last March and it was £35. No sure of the price for this coming year. It is an all year round collection and I think is good value. We are also one of the few councils with weekly refuse collection.