AIBU to dump my garden waste?

[thejollygreengiant]

I was getting rid of some garden waste the other day and my neighbour accused me of flytipping. I don't think that I was. What do you think?

The small garden waste is easy - I either compost it or stick it in the Council's green wheelie bin - but the very large, woody prunings are the problem. There is a piece of woodland across the road from us that is overgrown and unkempt. The 'hedges' are about 40 feet high! No one owns it AFAIK, even the neighbour admits that in 30 years he has never seen any signs of ownership. It is only a small piece of land, about 20 feet by 50 feet, but it is so overgrown and spooky that my DC would never play in there despite me trying to encourage them to make dens etc.

Is it reasonable to put the woody stuff (biodegradable, obv) in there, like so many other people in the road do? Or is my neighbour right and it is flytipping and immoral?

We have a holly hedge which is about 40-50 metres long. It is hell to cut and a skip costs £130.

We had someone round to cut it this year. £60 to do end to end and they shredded it and took it all away.

And DH and I didn't get scratched to pieces either.

We have a chipper for most prunings and they go either in the compost heap or in the brown bin from the council. We have two v large brown bins but still have do a ocmpost heap. And like MP we have a log pile too.

your title says it all - dump. no you shouldn't.

We have a garden incinerator and it's fab. I think it cost £25 or so. We use it for big branches and stuff that might contaminate the compost heap. Still have to cut up big branches. Only burn it late at night when there's no wind etc etc. Put the ash on the roses.

You really shouldn't do this. There is a park at the end of our garden and it has a woodland bit nearest to us. The people a few houses down dump their garden waste over the fence. They must have been doing it for many years as on the other side of their fence in the park is a huge mound. Anyway we have a rat problem in the park and gardens and according to the council this is the culprit.