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..?

Ours seem quite cheap, I think it's around £60. Our neighbour has very little garden waste so if ours isn't that full he can put it in ours as he kindly puts them out when we are away.

OMG!!!!

It was just a question - I wasn't expecting this kind of vitriolic abuse!!!!

Don't worry everyone - I will buy one and subscribe each year from now on

That's fine then, don't pay, and keep taking the waste to the tip yourself.

Our council have a similar garden waste wheely bin scheme but a lot less well-known is that they do have a system for occasional-use needs and more-than-a-wheely-bin needs (sometimes a really big prune creates 3 or 4 wheely bins worth of clippings). You buy wheely-bin-sized brown paper bags at the council offices for £3.50 each and that fee includes their collection services. Check whether your council does the same - they may just not promote it much.

You aren’t “buying a bin”
you are paying a garden waste licence. This is a service for them to collect and dispose of the garden waste for you. They provide the bin as part of the licence.

Most bins will sit empty over winter. Our collections are March - November and only emptied fortnightly.

you need a license per bin (not house), eg somebody with a large garden may have two or three bins. Each bin has a name tag and license number attached to it.

unless your area pro-ratas payment don’t get one now, wait until they inform you about next years subscription

We have to buy the bin (£80) as well as subscribe annually.

You're actually surprised that people are opposed to theft( which is what your trying to get a paid service for free is)?

Your moral compass must be way off.

Like I say - Don't worry. I will buy a bin/licence/sticker/subscription.
I apologise for any angst & upset caused!!!!!!

Our council will empty your bin, but you have to buy the sticker.

essentially the charge is for the emptying and you get the bin for free

Ours is a bargain - £35 a year (although they don't collect in January and February)

For god sake - I just asked a question, a simple yes or no would have done

I am now being accused of being Britain's most wanted thief

Don't worry - as I said before i will buy a bin, so you can all sleep safely!

Small properties with no gardens generally already pay less Council Tax as the banding is lower. The introduction of payment for garden waste has been a council money maker - council tax increases are capped but this isn’t. It’s a stealth tax. We are so fed up of the wasteful local council that we give them no extra revenue - we take our garden waste to the tip and never use their money making car parks. We pay £4000 per year too (4 bed house, not a mansion) and I’m not giving them a penny more. I’m sick of being treated as a cash cow.

There’s no upset. People simply pointed out that you proposed - AIBU I want to not pay for something/ steal

You pay for the collection not the bin.

Your private bin would have to fit their truck and you would still need to pay for the collection. Ours is £65 a year for fortnightly collections which aren't all year round.

Our local council gives you a label to put on the bin and no label means no collection.

OP I don't subscribe and they still empty the green garden waste bags (it's not a bin where we live).

Around a year ago they stopped and only did people who had paid and must have checked to a list. After about 6/8 weeks normal service resumed for everyone.

I'm with you - we pay a lot in council tax and don't receive much for it which is why I'm not keen to pay another £99 a year.

We use our predecessors old garden bags so I'm not sure if they would take a different bin. As a one off when we've done a big clear out we've left out a big ikea bag with garden waste and they've emptied it.

I'm in a London borough

If it's going to stress you it might be best to hide the thread - what you suggested doing was pretty antisocial, so you're going to get a lot of comments, people will react to the initial suggestion rather than the updates.

There's a guy who'll empty them for less than a tenner locally.

Need to be careful to check where they dispose of the waste. A lot of cheap waste collections end up in fly tipping.

Every week for a year?

Its not stressing me out - seems to be stressing everyone else!

It appears that the answer to my original question is 'no'
That's fine - that was all I was asking. I'll pay for the green waste collection in future.

It just annoys me a little when we pay our council tax and don't get a very good service in return. I am yet to see a street cleaner in the 5 years we have lived here. I end up brushing the road-side gutters to stop the drains clogging with leaves, we cut the 'council owned' grass verges ourselves. I have had to replace 3 green wheelie bins so far after the bin wagon ate the others and the council wouldn't replace (even with doorbell footage).

But don't worry - rather then being called a thief on here, I'll give the council some more money.

I'll stop my ant-social litter picking, gutter cleaning and grass cutting too.

But your council tax doesn’t include this.

I’ve already paid my council tax so maybe I should get free ice creams when the van comes round 🫣

I think OP is getting way too annoyed with the replies for it to be a wind up. I feel like she was rubbing her hands with glee when she posted, just waiting for the ‘yeah, stick it to the man!’ replies, only to realise that she was being tight 🤣

I take it you aware that about 60% of council income is spent on adult social care and child services? Why don't you buy a compost bin, one off cost, then the compost is free? Tree and large shrub cuttings buy a garden shredder then you've got mulch for free.

I thought the council sorted waste out?

Ice cream was never part of the council tax. The ice cream vans are all privately owned by private businesses

Don't worry - i will either pay the £70 a year for a brown bin, or forget about any kind of recycling and just put everything in the green bin in black bags

No - it was a question. I was expecting either 'yes' or 'no' instead of abuse

i wondered why i don't come on this site very often...!

You didn’t get abuse though.