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Garden waste collection ... you couldn't make it up

Couple of chickens.
Throw the grass cuttings in, the chickens will scratch around, eat a bit, and find it all a bit interesting. Add a few side shoots from the tomato plants and any leafy greens past their sell by date.
A week later no grass cuttings, happy chickens and a dozen eggs. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🍳🥚🥚

We have eight chickens, and they're pretty good at scratching around and laying eggs :) They keep the dogs (and the cat) amused too :D

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But the compost heap at the end of the garden got bigger by the week - I had to dig it out with the tractor in the end.
 
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We have the 3 bins (landfill/recycling/garden waste) and a black box for glass & aerosols. Our garden waste and landfill is coll3cted by th3 council and the recycle blue bin is a contacted service. The garden waste was free when we moved in 11 years ago. Then it crept in and has risen yearly. Like others it doesn't run fully through the winter. Each year you pay the fees and you'd get a coloured sticker with the year on it to show you'd paid. My hubby being a humorous type made a smiling face with the multiple stickers. Now though this year there are no stickers, and the men have a gadget in the lorry to tell them if you've paid. I've paid this years after he said enough, but it's £70 this year. This will be the last, as he said he'd rather go to the dump with a gorilla bag of cuttings each time.

Our skirmish was we also had chickens for a few years. He emptied the straw into the landfill bin and they refused to take it saying it was hazardous waste. I could see there point but contradictingly - really!. So we buried it amongst other waste and put other rubbish over the top for the next collection.
 
We have eight chickens, and they're pretty good at scratching around and laying eggs :) They keep the dogs (and the cat) amused too :D

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But the compost heap at the end of the garden got bigger by the week - I had to dig it out with the tractor in the end.
Amazed you had anything in that garden with the xenomorph lurking by the gate 😂 (or am I the only one who sees it)
 
Around here they also charge for garden waste removal,I think it is every two weeks and around £70 a year,you are given a large brown wheely bin,I do not avail myself to this service because I live around 800 yds from a small council tip.and so book online to get rid of garden waste and other stuff,strangely two households very near to our place pay the money,both have cars ,it takes all sorts.
This whole rubbish collection is a complete mess in this country,every council has different rules and contractors ours does not collect bottles,this means under the cover of darkness I load the container full to the brim with wine and beer bottles into the car and the next day empty them in a bottle bank we have two quiet close,today is our rubbish collection,it is the red paper and cardboard and the green food container,these have already been collected at 7.45 am,next week will be the big black wheely bin for general rubbish and the green bin for plastic and aeroso;s and tins.
It seems every council have different rules and different coloured bins and plastic bags,for me it shows the decline in our ability as a country to actually organize anything correctly again a sign of the times.
 
Where I stay, apart from the other bins, there is a blue bin for paper. The guy across the road decided to put a bike in the blue bin (as you do), one wheel sticking out, so you could not really mistake it for paper. Along came the bin man who had a look at it, called over his mate, had a conversation about it & emptied it into the lorry, bike & all. I decided to phone the council told him the story & said, that I now understand that you can put anything in any bin. He went off his head, quoted me the regulations & threatened me with a fine. I said what about the bike situation "well, they probably never noticed it":confused:
 
Amazed you had anything in that garden with the xenomorph lurking by the gate 😂 (or am I the only one who sees it)
It doesn't look natural, pretty alien if you ask me......
 
LB Bexley has had a garden bin charge for several years
We don't use the small brown bin as we limit food waste and have one of those food masher things/food waste
disposal. All waste is bagged to keep bins clean.
We have 4 bins - green, blue, white top , brown and small brown food one we never use
Thnkfully all of the properties have osp and space to the sides to keep bins out of site but
other roads older houses some that hardly have a front garden of houses converted to flats can have a dozen bins
 
I love silkies. Had a few around twenty years ago - really friendly and VERY broody. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

We've got a mix of various types ... I do like the silkies though.

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Amazed you had anything in that garden with the xenomorph lurking by the gate 😂 (or am I the only one who sees it)
It doesn't look natural, pretty alien if you ask me......

Keeps the rats away though :D

It's actually off one of our hairy ride-on mowers. No problem with leaving grass clippings but they're definitely not 'zero emissions' :)

(they're not normally allowed in the garden but escape from time to time)

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LB Bexley has had a garden bin charge for several years
We don't use the small brown bin as we limit food waste and have one of those food masher things/food waste
disposal. All waste is bagged to keep bins clean.
We have 4 bins - green, blue, white top , brown and small brown food one we never use
Thnkfully all of the properties have osp and space to the sides to keep bins out of site but
other roads older houses some that hardly have a front garden of houses converted to flats can have a dozen bins

It's crazy the way the colours vary from area to area - we're in a corner of Shropshire that borders on both Staffordshire and Cheshire so within a mile or two of our house we see all sorts of variations.
 
We have a garden waste bin (brown) that cost £55 this year. When we moved here it was free but has been charged for since 2014. I don't have a problem paying for it, even though it only needs emptying 7 or 8 times a year. The convenience of being able to just chuck in armfuls of hedge and bush cuttings far outweighs the hassle of collecting everything into black bags (that often tear) and taking them to the 'local' tip. I had to go through all that at our last house in Hampshire where garden waste wasn't collected and trying to hide it in the black (general waste) bin was a hanging offence.

Our recycling bin (green) is good for most things, including empty beer and wine bottles :). The only downside is that our council aren't great at keeping us up to date with exactly what we can put in there. I've heard that if an undesirable item (such as a takeaway pizza box that's likely to be greasy) gets found at the recycling centre, the whole truck load gets sent to landfill. I've often seen such boxes poking out of other people's green bins.

Our food waste bin (grey) is small and emptied weekly. I think it's great. We have an even smaller bag-lined caddy in the kitchen where we put banana skins, egg shells, meat bones and the like. When the (compostable) bag is full just put it outside in the grey bin. Neighbours who don't bother with the food waste bin are easily spotted by the flies swarming around their black bins every fortnight when out for collection.
 
As mentioned going to the dump is a 40 mile round trip for us now, so very much a last resort and certainly not an option for garden waste. The bigger/bulkier stuff I generally have to dry out and then burn.

When we moved in I filled 3 or 4 skips with stuff the previous occupant had left behind - hidden in undergrowth etc. Piles of old tyres (even wheels), rusty sheets of corrugated iron, old sinks, piles of old slates, etc. etc.

One rather unusual thing I found (that definitely couldn't go to the dump) was this:

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Where I stay, apart from the other bins, there is a blue bin for paper. The guy across the road decided to put a bike in the blue bin (as you do), one wheel sticking out, so you could not really mistake it for paper. Along came the bin man who had a look at it, called over his mate, had a conversation about it & emptied it into the lorry, bike & all. I decided to phone the council told him the story & said, that I now understand that you can put anything in any bin. He went off his head, quoted me the regulations & threatened me with a fine. I said what about the bike situation "well, they probably never noticed it":confused:
Last year I was working up in Oxford and watched the refuse collectors emptying the bins from the school next door.

One bloke looked in the bin, saw something (in bags) that presumably shouldn’t have been there and dumped them on the street.

He then wheeled the bins to the lorry, emptied them, pushed them back to where he got them from and walked off leaving the bags of rubbish on the pavement!!
 
Last year I was working up in Oxford and watched the refuse collectors emptying the bins from the school next door.

One bloke looked in the bin, saw something (in bags) that presumably shouldn’t have been there and dumped them on the street.

He then wheeled the bins to the lorry, emptied them, pushed them back to where he got them from and walked off leaving the bags of rubbish on the pavement!!
Sounds about right for the People's Republic of Oxford.

The local politicians are more interested in imposing 20mph speed limits in local villages, putting LTN's where they're not wanted, adding bus lanes that create traffic chaos, putting in cycle lanes everywhere (that are ignored by the cyclists who persist in cycling on the pavements or in the roads), and introducing a Workplace Parking Levy than they are in making sure they empty the bins and fix potholes.
 
In my area we have 1 x Green Garden waste bin ( £58 per year ) One black non recyclable stuff wheelie bine, one plastic box for glass / metal. one plastic box for plastic and a blue sack for cardboard .... Quite a collection on the drive and you have to remember what goes out on which week! As we live in a small narrow lane most of the bins stay on the outside perimeter on the drive.... pain in the bottom moving them all from the garage door to get your 'toys' out on a rare sunny day :cool:
 
It's quite simple in my area ,kitchen waste weekly in a small green bin,plastic in a pink reusable sack fortnightly..General waste in a black plastic bag,will collect max of 3 same week as the plastic.On the following week ,called the "green" week they collect paper in a disposable green plastic bag,separate bag for cans and bottles,large reusable sacks for garden waste,there is no limit for these. No charge as yet for garden waste.Cardboard collected on the green week,which is loose.
 
We've always had the simple collection service here - one (green) bin for recycling glass, plastic, paper, cardboard, metal/cans. Another (grey) for general household waste, plus a small indoor bin and larger outdoor bin for food waste, in which we also use biodegradable bags for cleanliness. Food waste collected every week, green and grey alternate weeks, brown garden waste fortnightly same day as household grey bin but collected by a different crew/waggon. Works well in our part of Ashford Borough, although other areas have had problems since the contractor changed a few months ago.
 

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