On 6/26/04 1:34 PM, in article ,
"Choc-brain" wrote:

"Chris Hogg" wrote
In recent years, our local council (Kerrier, in west Cornwall) has
been taking garden waste at local waste recycling sites. They take it
away to a central depot where it's shredded and composted. But it's
disposed of locally, rather than being made available to the public

I'm amazed and disappointed. What do other councils do?

My council (Macclesfield) gives you a voucher every time you take garden
waste to the tip. When you have 5 vouchers, you can exchange them for a free
(20litre??) bag of compost. The only problem with this method is that they
give you 1 voucher for any quantity of garden waste, so it's very tempting
to take garden waste to the tip in small amounts in order to get lots of
vouchers.

Choccie


Interesting! It would seem that your council needs to pay more attention to
detail. Do they get paid for being on council??
My thinking is that if you should bring more then you get more vouchers. But
then there may be problems at their end that you need to find out about.
Otherwise just follow the rules...or you could just compost it yourself.
It's not that difficult and you could add 'other' stuff that you wouldn't
send to the tip and increases the power of your compost for plants. Your
plants will love you.
Gary