Will the council empty a privately bought garden waste bin?

[NoisyBrickDog]

For the council to provide you a brown garden waste bin and empty it every week, it will cost about £70 a year where we are.

Just wondered if I were to buy a brown bin off e-bay for about £5 - will the council empty it or ignore it....?

Has anyone else done this..?

So you want the service but refuse to pay...

They will ignore it. They have a list whose pays and who doesn't.

In my council you have a label to put on the garden waste bin to show you have paid up and when it expires

You have to have a sticker and sign up for the waste scheme where we are, so people don’t game the system like you are trying to do
Pay for it if you want it, or go to a tip 🥴

Well you'd still have to subscribe to the service but they might let you use our own bin rather than having the one-off cost of buying one, if it was exactly the same and fitted their bin lorries etc. Why don't you call the council and ask them? The collectors have a list of which houses have paid though so they won't just go along the street emptying all the garden waste bins or no one would pay.

They will know you haven’t paid and won’t take it

You have to have a sticker here. I doubt they’ll take it if your address isn’t registered.

As people have said there is normally a sticker thst goes on your bin each year to show you have subscribed to the service. They wouldnt take mine a day over when the subscription ended.
My LA also sell garden bags, they are like £8 a roll

They ignore it. Where I live they have a list of who has paid and who hasn’t. If you haven’t paid they take your brown bin back and then reinstate it when you pay on the website. If your bin is identical to the council bin you might actually lose it too if they think it’s one of theirs and remove it.

When i used to have a garden waste bin each year I was provided with an official sticker that also had the address of my.property printed on it. U need to pay the fee

We accidentally put ours out when the renewal was due and we had forgotten. They didn’t take it until the next collection when we had paid.

Also stop being tight and pay for the service FFS

In a way...

We already pay about £4000 a year council tax (band H) and we don't generate much garden waste.

2-3 vigorous prunes a year and we usually take it to the council tip in one of those ton-sandbags

Just wondered if we bought a brown bin, would they take it?

It re-cycles an unwanted bin if nothing else

Just seems daft to pay £70 for 2-3 collections a year

Mine have reusable sacks and you have to use them.
If you pay the fee and ask if they can empty your own one they might. If it's a very similar size. But they definitely won't if you don't pay. And they could well say no it has to be their one.

So you want council tax payers who live in smaller properties with no gardens to pay for the additional costs of living in a home with a garden large enough to need this level of garden waste disposal, rather than paying yourself. What a sense of entitlement.

You'll have to keep going to the tip if you don’t want to pay. £70 is cheap. Ours is £110.

No, they won't.

When you pay they give you a yearly sticker to put on the bin. They won't collect if the appropriate payment isn't in place.

Surely this is the same for many people though? It's not like others are magically cutting down forests of trees each year. We have had a garden bin for years. We could stop paying for the subscription. I doubt they would take away our bin, just stop collecting it.

If you don't want to pay, take it to the tip.

You need the garden waste sticker on it to get it emptied

Yes, ours is £130. £70 seems bargainous.

Well go to the bloody tip then you cheapskate! Don't try to scam the council.

If you're band H you're not poor.

If it's a couple of tip trips a year you must have hardly any plants, just go to the tip. Then you won't need to pay the annual charge at all.

Don't worry - I'll buy a bin through the council ready for the autumn de-clutter in that case.

The bin can just sit empty until spring 2027

Is this a wind up? Because it is really weird and selfish that you seem to think the rules don't apply to you! What you are saying is you don't want to pay anything but you still want the service so everyone around you (ie your neighbours) can contribute to your costs! It doesn't sound like you are short of money either!

Ours us £120 and the bin is extra on top if you don't have one or need a replacement! No sticker for the bin but they only collect from addresses marked as paid on their system.

Ooo yes and go to the supermarket next and walk out with your shopping bc you already pay enough tax each year you don’t deserve to pay any more money for things

Everyone else pays council tax too.

Either pay the charge or take it to the tip.

Of course they won't take your bin unless you have subscribed.