General Discussion
Seems that according to this mornings news that Teignbridge are considering charging to take away garden rubbish. Spokesman for Teignbridge talked about people composting more so does this spell the end of green wheelies??? Don't suppose it'll be long before household waste is weighed and excess charged for !
Please see below details of what TDC are planning
I think weekly food waste collections will be greatly welcomed, and if a consequence of increasing that service is £35 per year to collect garden waste, that doesn't seem too bad.
Tip of the iceberg. Once you start paying for ADDITIONAL SERVICES, ones that should be covered by the excesssive rates we already pay and get little for. The greed festers and before long you WILL be paying for all your waste services on top of your rates. Over to you Mrs C!
£35 per year? Yes, that might work out at less than a pound per week but I think TDC will be told to get stuffed by the vast majority. Somehow I think lots of black plastic bags full of grass cuttings and the like will be finding their way into landfill bins.
Quick Solution.
Dont recycle for a few weeks and put it all in the lanfill bin until they (TDC) give in.
In South Glos, they pay £36 a year and if you attempt to put garden waste in landfill bins, they have inspectors that will fine you. So my daughter tells me who lives there.
Do they open all the black plastic bags then that are in the landfill bin in order to check what's in 'em?
Thin end of the wedge and Lynne it is at the moment £35 for an additionnal bin not for the collection of the garden refuse. Will the next step be that DCC will start charging to take green waste as they do for hardcore, which incidentally they resell. Also how long before the council decides that it is not its duty to collect plastic and cardboard and they start charging us for that.
They don't open all the black plastic bags, the way they operate is as follows. The enforcement officer may go along the route of the black bin collection and randomly open the black bags , they will also take black bags noting where they are from and open them later, they also act on intellegence, ie. if your neighbour grasses you up, excuse the pun.
So.....bins get put out at night (they do in my road). What's to stop someone putting their green waste in someone else's bin? A bit far fetched perhaps but my point is that although the green waste may be found in someone's landfill bin how can the enforcement officer prove that the owner of the bin put the green waste in that bin?
Or......someone forks out £35 for a green waste bin and other folks put their stuff in it as well? Now there's a thought.............
So does that mean the whole of the green wheelie bin will be for food waste collected once a week? Or will there be another food waste bin and the green bin will be used for gardening waste if you pay for it? The front of my house already resembles a recycling centre.
I suppose the council aren't worried about fly tipping anymore as most of the fields are being built on ...
"I suppose the council aren't worried about fly tipping anymore as most of the fields are being built on ..."
I wonder how many of the new residents will pay this £35? (and then of course there's all that extra revenue going to TDC in the form of council tax..........)
not forgetting the New Homes Bonus. £500,000 I think it was for 2012/2013.
My post seemed to get overlooked somewhat
I will happily have your grass cuttings or left over greens
Waste fruit
Leaves (bagged seperately please)
So don't pay the council just bring them to me
Once upon a time my council provided free skips twice a year. They were so popular people were filling them up even before the driver released the chains!! We also had small brown 'caddies' into which food waste in decompostable bags was put. Both cut out now, the latter being a trial that was uneconomical, albeit environmentally friendly and simple to use.
Tins, glass, paper and cardboard all go into the same green bin now (glass used to be a separate bin). As the dustman explained when I looked a little puzzled as I watched the glass I was still separating put in with the rest, the reply was, 'All the same Mate, all the same' 
Which I took to mean that they now have more clever ways of separation.
- Or does the whole lot (brown and green) just get shipped to India as some reports suggest from time to time so that councils then achieve disposal targets set for this country?
Be careful with cardboard, they won't accept it in the boxes in Teignbridge or by the side of the bin. They will accept thin card in the wheelie bin as long as it's mixed and not over a third of content (I think). Thick card must be taken to a recycling centre (Newton/Exeter) or a cardboard recycling bank.