"Choc-brain" wrote in message
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"Chris Hogg" wrote
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

I'm amazed and disappointed. What do other councils do?

My council (Macclesfield) gives you a voucher every time you take
garden
waste to the tip. When you have 5 vouchers, you can exchange them
for a free
(20litre??) bag of compost. The only problem with this method is
that they
give you 1 voucher for any quantity of garden waste, so it's very
tempting
to take garden waste to the tip in small amounts in order to get
lots of
vouchers.

Running a car costs a non negligible fraction of a £ per mile

Franz