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..?

LOL! Of course they won’t collect it.

@NoisyBrickDog my council do a scale of fees for green garden bin collection, from £78 for the full year, £48 Sept, Oct, Nov & Dec, and then £20 for Jan, Feb Mar. I wait until September & pay £48 as I tend to have more green waste during those months. I can't drive so for me it's convenient to have it collected. Years ago there was no option for this collection and we'd have bags of it around the garden waiting to be taken to the tip.
Also, the reason why they wouldn't collect it is they have the addresses on their systems and they just go to those and ignore any others. I can't even see when my address is being collected as it doesn't come up on the on line calendar when I haven't paid

So now you're turning on 'the council' out of frustration?
Make sure you've read up on your rights, know the complaints procedure and befriend a local councillor so that you can really leverage that revenge...

Sounds perfect. Also if you don’t @ me or reply to me I won’t necessarily see that you’ve written my username.

But I think you’ve made a good and sensible choice to pay for the service you want to use. Well done 👍

Sticker here with address on it. My friend had paid hers but not put the sticker on and they left her bin, it was only when she said she was going to phone up and complain as the bin men had gone to her bin, looked at it and then left it. She popped the sticker on she’d forgotten about and they emptied it next time.

I'm not turning on the council - ours appear to be pretty useless at the best of times and hence I don't feel we are getting value for the money we pay

They won't pick it up, they know who had paid for subscriptions.

How much for April, may, June, July, Aug? This seems sensible. I wish I could just pay for summer, I pay the whole year as theres no other option but only really use it from May til Sept.

This is correct.

They ignored my bin a fortnight ago because I had forgotten to renew the subscription.

Now I've paid we are having it emptied again.

Forgot to add, we have stickers here with our address on.

Running against the crowd, but round here if you're polite to them and tip them, they will cheerfully do you the occasional favour. If you have never spoken to them and just presumptuously put a bin out, you have less chance but might get away with it as a one off.

Friends of mine have 3 bins and tip well. They never have trouble getting extra favours in leaf drop weeks. Asking neighbours is also a good shout. Some people have trees, a lot of people don't.

they won't it's not their bin so not their responsibility to empty it pay the fees if you want it emptied

Yet their apparently good enough to empty your bin? maybe you can take it to the tip yourself if council is apparently so useless? 😂😂😂

Wow our collection including bin is £48.50! I’ve got a bargain!

I've not read all the replies but you could make a compost heap instead.

They will not empty it my mother in law pays for the service but they didn’t empty it until the second week because it hadn’t gone through the system yet. £70 for a whole years collection is around £1.35 a week.

I just put it in normal black bin

i let it dry out - I chopped nettles and weeds down - then add to black bin

esp it’s literally 2/3 times a year

no grass as fake

Do your council have a bulky waste collection option? Ours is really good (1 free bulk collection every 2 months that can be made up of 5 big furniture items or 15 bin bags, then £5 per lot for any additional collections) but I know most don’t match this, it still could be a cheaper/better option for a small number of collections.

We can’t even get one. We moved council areas (literally over the border from one council to another) and they have a limit on how many licences to empty they will issue per year. We’ve had to join a wait list for next year and if someone doesn’t renew they will then offer to people on the list. (It’s around £70 per year).

Why not get a second hand bin?

Same. We have a sticker from the council that shows the dates from/to that you’ve paid for.

OP you’re being very cheeky expecting to have free use of a service that others have paid for!

Yes, and we are paying top dollar for it - and there are loads of things they were supposed to do and haven't

@NoisyBrickDog for what it's worth I agree with you. Yes you are 'supposed' to pay for garden waste removal but why should you? My council tax is lower than what you said you pay, but I pay ~£2,400 per year to live in my own home already. Generally, if you have a garden you will be already paying a higher council tax band too. Council tax is rising every year and we have no choice but to pay it, and services just continue to get cut or worsen. I know costs go up, but the amount of tax payers' money that just gets wasted is shocking. Also, if you don't drive then you have no access to the tip, so a service you are paying for which you can't use (even though in many councils, including mine, there is a massive push for people to reduce car use). I can try and reduce the amount of waste I produce but I can't stop my garden growing, unless I pave over it all or get some horrible fake grass - not very good for drainage nor the environment. If I could get away without paying for garden waste I would, so I don't blame you at all, you're already paying enough to the council!

Sadly, not an option, as I'm sure most people would go for that instead of the full year

Come on op, don’t rise to the bait, lol. No, the council won’t pick up a ‘rogue’ bin. Yes, you’ll need to pay. No, I agree the charge is not right given how much bloody council tax is.

@Fieldday26 "We’ve had to join a wait list for next year and if someone doesn’t renew they will then offer to people on the list. (It’s around £70 per year)."
Yikes ! That's expensive.

Ours is £45.00 (with no collection Christmas & New Year weeks) It seems we have a good deal.🙂