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Garden waste wheelie bin collection - some concerns
Some councils have issued new wheelie bins for garden waste and issued a
notice saying that the normal bin will not be emptied if it contains garden waste. Now what will people do if they want to dispose of nasty garden waste such as lawn mowings contaminated with weedkiller or diseased vegetation? If they put nasty stuff in the garden waste bin - and then that waste is made into compost for sale in garden centres - will there not be a problem? And is it possible, when buying garden centre compost, to ensure that one doesn't get a compost containing council rubbish? -- Chris |
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Garden waste wheelie bin collection - some concerns
On Sunday, August 5, 2012 6:13:34 PM UTC+1, Chris wrote:
Some councils have issued new wheelie bins for garden waste and issued a notice saying that the normal bin will not be emptied if it contains garden waste. Now what will people do if they want to dispose of nasty garden waste such as lawn mowings contaminated with weedkiller or diseased vegetation? If they put nasty stuff in the garden waste bin - and then that waste is made into compost for sale in garden centres - will there not be a problem? And is it possible, when buying garden centre compost, to ensure that one doesn't get a compost containing council rubbish? -- Chris Bagging the garden waste properly, and ensuring its not on the very top of the rest of what you have in the bin should mean no problems. |
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Garden waste wheelie bin collection - some concerns
On Sunday, 5 August 2012 18:13:34 UTC+1, Chris wrote:
Some councils have issued new wheelie bins for garden waste and issued a notice saying that the normal bin will not be emptied if it contains garden waste. Now what will people do if they want to dispose of nasty garden waste such as lawn mowings contaminated with weedkiller or diseased vegetation? If they put nasty stuff in the garden waste bin - and then that waste is made into compost for sale in garden centres - will there not be a problem? And is it possible, when buying garden centre compost, to ensure that one doesn't get a compost containing council rubbish? -- Chris I think I smell jobsworthery. Are they going to look in and inspect every black bag inside your wheelie bin? Not that I'm advocating such rebellious conduct of course. If you don't want rubbish compost, there are still a handful of manufactureres selling peat based composts. Erin and Westland for example. As for grass cuttings treated with weedkiller - why spray your grass unless you're aiming for a high quality playing surface? A species rich sward is far less boring anyway. Rod |
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OT: at our local tip, I challenged a man who was about to empty a whole lot of broken plastic plant pots and polystyrene trays into the "garden waste" skip. "Well, it's garden stuff". He came back later and said "You were right - I asked the guy - thanks for telling me".
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Garden waste wheelie bin collection - some concerns
"Steerpike" wrote in message ... On Sunday, August 5, 2012 6:13:34 PM UTC+1, Chris wrote: Some councils have issued new wheelie bins for garden waste and issued a notice saying that the normal bin will not be emptied if it contains garden waste. Now what will people do if they want to dispose of nasty garden waste such as lawn mowings contaminated with weedkiller or diseased vegetation? If they put nasty stuff in the garden waste bin - and then that waste is made into compost for sale in garden centres - will there not be a problem? And is it possible, when buying garden centre compost, to ensure that one doesn't get a compost containing council rubbish? -- Chris Bagging the garden waste properly, and ensuring its not on the very top of the rest of what you have in the bin should mean no problems. Put anything in bags in my LA garden waste wheelie bins and it won't get emptied. -- shirley x http://community.webshots.com/user/s...host=community How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein |
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Garden waste wheelie bin collection - some concerns
On 05/08/2012 18:13, Chris wrote:
Some councils have issued new wheelie bins for garden waste and issued a notice saying that the normal bin will not be emptied if it contains garden waste. Wow! What backwater are you living in that they have only just got around to a separate collection for garden waste? Now what will people do if they want to dispose of nasty garden waste such as lawn mowings contaminated with weedkiller or diseased vegetation? Makes no difference at the temperature they will bulk compost stuff everything except a handful of very nasty persistent commercial farm weedkillers will be long gone after it has been composted. I put all my lawn clippings on the compost heap. Never had a problem once it has composted down. Test with mustard & cress seed if worried. If they put nasty stuff in the garden waste bin - and then that waste is made into compost for sale in garden centres - will there not be a problem? Not if they do it right. Hot composting will see of most things. I compost many more things than my green bin accepts - the only thing I don't are things with white onion rot and extremely sharp pyracantha prunings. My green bin is used to make leaf mould instead. And is it possible, when buying garden centre compost, to ensure that one doesn't get a compost containing council rubbish? Council recycled compost is actually not bad stuff at all unless you are an eccentric Organic(TM) grower targetting the worried well with vastly overpriced and overpackaged supermarket produce. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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Garden waste wheelie bin collection - some concerns
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Some councils have issued new wheelie bins for garden waste and issued a notice saying that the normal bin will not be emptied if it contains garden waste. Now what will people do if they want to dispose of nasty garden waste such as lawn mowings contaminated with weedkiller or diseased vegetation? If they put nasty stuff in the garden waste bin - and then that waste is made into compost for sale in garden centres - will there not be a problem? And is it possible, when buying garden centre compost, to ensure that one doesn't get a compost containing council rubbish? I recently took the Blighted hulms of my potatoes down the tip and the chap there said "not in garden waste please, put it in the general rubbish". -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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Garden waste wheelie bin collection - some concerns
"Chris" ] wrote in message ]... Some councils have issued new wheelie bins for garden waste and issued a notice saying that the normal bin will not be emptied if it contains garden waste. We've never been allowed to put garden waste in our bins. If they see it in there, they won't empty it. We can get a brown bin for garden waste, costs £16 /year and gets emptied fortnightly. Never bothered as I have a compost heap. Tina Now what will people do if they want to dispose of nasty garden waste such as lawn mowings contaminated with weedkiller or diseased vegetation? If they put nasty stuff in the garden waste bin - and then that waste is made into compost for sale in garden centres - will there not be a problem? And is it possible, when buying garden centre compost, to ensure that one doesn't get a compost containing council rubbish? -- Chris |
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What was being suggested was, in the case of weedkilled lawn clippings that the OP didn't want to put in the garden waste wheelie bin, to bag it up and hide it under the waste in the black bin so that the black bin wouldn't be rejected for containing apparent garden waste.
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Garden waste wheelie bin collection - some concerns
"kay" wrote in message ... shirleycatuk;966273 Wrote: Put anything in bags in my LA garden waste wheelie bins and it won't get emptied. But that wasn't what was suggested. What was being suggested was, in the case of weedkilled lawn clippings that the OP didn't want to put in the garden waste wheelie bin, to bag it up and hide it under the waste in the black bin so that the black bin wouldn't be rejected for containing apparent garden waste. -- kay Sorry, I misunderstood what was being said! -- shirley x http://community.webshots.com/user/s...host=community How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein |
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