There is a weekly garden waste collection scheduled for Wednesdays for my address.
According to:
We will collect a maximum of five bags of garden waste with your weekly collection. Should you have any more please contact the Veolia Contact Centre.
2 weeks ago they have left one bag behind and again today they have one bag behind. Frankly I am tired of having to contact them /complain about not collecting - emails go to their customer service, I get a polite reply that they will come back to collect and then they do not.
There was 3 bags left out last night so well within the "limit" and again only 2 were collected and one left behind.
I moved in here late December and back garden was a jungle, I am slowly trying to clear it up but how can I ensure that garden waste is actually collected as per their website ie up to 5 bags?
Any ideas?
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Sorry to hear that, I have never put out more than 2 bags but no problems. Meanwhile, are you on good terms with any neighbours - we 'share' the rubbish when one of us has a big tidy-up!
Better get busy as it looks like this service won't be provided (at least for free) for much longer.
From latest Budget proposal:
"Charging for Garden Waste: Stopping the current free weekly universal green waste collection service and
reverting to a weekly opt in charged green waste collection service. The charge would be set at £75 per annum."And the reason? "Green garden waste is household waste for which a charge can be made for the collection. The service will be paid for by those who opt in only rather than a contract cost which is funded universally by all residents."
It seems somewhat counter-intuitive against the broader national policy context that we will continue to be able to produce as much grey-bin household waste as we can fit in to our bins, This will go into landfill. At the same time we're now to be charged for waste which is harmless to the environment and from which a beneficial product can be made.
Hmm, is it me, or is there something wrong with this picture?
In explaining the change, the Council also say:
By charging for green waste......we will be encouraging residents to deal with their waste sustainably at source.
Green waste and recycling is weekly. Grey-bin waste fortnightly. See the Collection Day Finder web page.
That's pretty standard across the UK. In some places they're both fortnightly rather than recycling being weekly. The idea is that you don't put much in your grey bin (after recycling and food waste going in separate bins) so it doesn't get so full.
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