"Just Molly" wrote in message
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"Chris Hogg" wrote in message
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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
(spread on a nearby farmer's fields, I believe, with whom they
have
some sort of arrangement). When I rang them to ask if they had
any
plans to bag and sell it, they replied that they would really
love to,
but new regulations from DEFRA relating to foot-and-mouth mean
that
they would have to get it all regularly tested, which makes it
too
expensive to justify (tested for F&M presumably, although why
garden
waste should carry it is beyond me! Perhaps DEFRA are worried
about
animal contamination).

I'm amazed and disappointed. What do other councils do? Is this
testing thing just an excuse, or does it really have to be done?
And
if so, what's the logic?



my council composts garden waste and makes it available for free
at the
local dump.


Mine sells it for £5 a bag :0(

If that is less than 100 litres you ought to tell them they are
ripping you off.

Franz