On 10/11/2010 18:46, Pete wrote:


"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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Our Council (Runnymede Borough Council) have always charged for the
rent/use of green reusable sacks for garden waste which they then
collect every two weeks.
The alternative is you cart it to the Council Recycling Site in your
car. If you try it in a van, I have a Landrover 90 hardtop just for
such things, you have to have a Surrey County Council Waste Licence.

Our garden (Brown) waste bin's contents are collected two-weekly, no
charge.
I doubt if the collected contents value warrants the cost of the fuel
etc. to make it viable.

They don't but avoiding the landfill tax by recycling it tips the
balance in favour of separate collection. My local council does a pretty
good job collecting green waste in green bins alternate weeks through
spring, summer and autumn at no charge. Kerbside collections are free to
residents. The glass, plastic and cans collection is hilarious with one
blue box per household of *mixed* recyclables. The guys spend ages
sorting into three hoppers on the truck and a Heath Robinson arrangement
of levers flings it in when the hoppers are full.

I have lost count of the number of full sized wheelie bins that
Salfordians have these days but I think pink, brown, black and blue.

In Belgium only waste placed in the offical tax prepaid bags will be
collected (this applies both to domestic refuse and recyclables). And
woe betide you if you put something in the wrong bag - somehow it will
be returned to you with a nasty red sticker on it!

Regards,
Martin Brown