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from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

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.

Maybe they aren't ripping anyone off; just being realistic.

£5 might reflect the actual cost of council collection, storage,
processing, labour and packaging costs of turning household waste into
compost. Councils that "give it away to the public for free", also face
production costs. There's no such thing as a free lunch, even for
plants. When councils give anything away free or at a knockdown price,
council tax payers are funding that "generosity". Read your council's
annual accounts, you might get a nasty shock to see where some of your
money was spent, or "given".

Our council (North Ayshire) uses their mainland public's composted
green waste in the gardens it manages in schools, parks, public gardens
and care homes etc.

Janet.