Rotherham's Green bins-will you pay?

[Ms Macbeth]

We have a small garden, my husband took 9 bags of hedge trimmings to the tip last week. Without a car, the bags would have gone in the black bin over a period of time.

 

We used the green bag service before it was stopped, it was adequate for small gardens. Our children live in different local authority areas. Both have brown/green bins for garden waste at no charge. One can also put all recyclables into a single bin, meaning a lot less goes to landfill.

[Calahonda]

I consider under £50 a year a very cheap alternative to loading up my car with smelly greenery, driving to a council tip, queueing to enter, lugging it to the correct skip, and then driving back and fumigating my car, it gets a 10 from me.

[spilldig]

I consider It a total rip off given obscene amount of council tax and rates charged.

[El Cid]

I consider It a total rip off given obscene amount of council tax and rates charged.

 

Government funding to local councils has been cut by 50% in recent years. The whole recyling and waste disposal is complex, so I dont think it could be a seperate bill.

[Calahonda]

I consider It a total rip off given obscene amount of council tax and rates charged.

 

Well it ain’t free, but it beats the hell out of going to the tip, so I shall continue to use it.

[nightrider]

I consider under £50 a year a very cheap alternative to loading up my car with smelly greenery, driving to a council tip, queueing to enter, lugging it to the correct skip, and then driving back and fumigating my car, it gets a 10 from me.

 

But it’s a lot cheaper to put it in the black bin, which is what a lot of people now do.

[iansheff]

I put my privet trimmings and grass in the black bin, last time I went to the tip I was queuing about 20 minutes on the road to get in.

[davyboy]

The tip I use is just inside another council's area so is also used by my council's tax payers.

The council that runs the tip decided to close it as they said it wasn't used very much and had taken a survey to prove it.

The survey was over a short time and at a time that it was know not to be used much.

The outrage at this fiddle was such that the tip remains open and the amount recycled runs in the upper 70's.

[Calahonda]

But it’s a lot cheaper to put it in the black bin, which is what a lot of people now do.

 

I manage to fill our green bin to the gunnels, so the black bin is not an option as it is also well used.

[El Cid]

The tip I use is just inside another council's area so is also used by my council's tax payers.

 

I feel that is why it was closed, people using the tip be not paying for it. Leeds now use ID for all their tips, although they rarely have enough staff to enforce it.