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Originally Posted by Kymmy
Beds councils put it on a nice plastic style leaflet with a slotted hole in the top so it hung on the wheelie bin handles..
Yesterdays collection though was planned one day early but it didn't happen till today becasue of the snow  They've also stopped collection garden waste for the next two weeks with extra recycling waste collections and a specific day for xmas trees  |
You see, there are several major differences between that service and the service my own local authority give.
1) The council publish changes like this only on their website. No news letters, no leaflets. However, leaflets that hung on wheely bins would be pointless because
2) The council don't provide Wheely bins. If you buy your own, they will empty it, but they do actively discourage them.
3) The council will not officially take garden refuse. They will if you bury it in the other rubbish, and the bin men do not notice it. They've had a trial scheme running in two (I counted them, sad, I know) streets where they do collect garden refuse, but this trial has run for nearly two years now, with no apparent moves to expand the scheme or cancel it. Oh, and they count ANY organic waste (even food) as Garden waste.
As for xmas trees, they do provide facilities to dispose of them at the local dumps, but my nearest one is 3 miles away (I don't drive) and they won't collect them. Luckily I bought a good plastic tree a few years ago that is actually hard to tell from a real tree.