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Garden waste recycled as compost by local councils
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message 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, We have already all paid for this in our garbage collection levy. We also have already paid for what would otherwise have been the labour cost of transporting it to, and manipulating it at an incinerator or a landfill site. 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. Of course. But don't you find it an odd coincidence that they sell for prices in the same ballpark as normal peat-based potting composts? I call that charging what the market will bear. Donkeys years ago, in the sixties, the local council produced compost from household waste at Leatherhead at a price which was (quoting from memory) about a quarter of the price of commercial composts. They only stopped after a few years because of fears of spreading disease and glass slivers, since they composted all household waste, and not only garden waste. (Damn good stuff it was,too.) 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. Franz |
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