General Chat

I'm with you there Jean... that is what tax is for.

We have three bins.
Black for household waste.
Brown for plastic and paper.
Green for garden waste and cardboard.

They are emptied (alternately) fortnightly, but we find it quite a heavy job sometimes. We do agree with it, it is just a bind for people who may be infirm.

Glass used to be collected but now we have to take it to the bottle bank.

The people with rats, which I have seen on the news.... they don't seem to have bins. Am I right or is that just extra which is put out in plastic bags?
Unless you have bins...... you will have rats wont you?

Deanna X

Our council have a target to meet regarding recycling. If you have to pay to have your recycling collected you are paying the council extra to meet THEIR target!!!

Nice to know Penny, and I wonder what they would say if that was put to them?

Deanna X

We have a brown bin for gardening waste and brown cardboard, red box for plastic bottles, green box for newspapers cans tins shoes, and green bin for everything else including maggots in the summer. We have fortnightly collections hence the extra addition in the summer.

There were a lot of questions when we had to pay for our garden waste bin from tewkesbury which we come under and just up th road Glos city don't charge for garden waste collection. However, it was then proved to us that they have extra loaded into everybody's council tax to pay for the garden waste collection while those people in our borough who don't choose to have garden waste collected (it was voluntary) don't have to pay anything. They can't put garden waste in their green bin though so have to take it to the recycling centre.
And of course if the people in this borough take it to Gloucester tip, which they will because it is closer, they' re helping to meet the target of Glos city council and not Tewkesbury their own council.

I bet not a lot of people have worked that out, and wont until our council tax rises.
Ann
Glos

Although nobody likes paying out extra money I can see that charging those who use the service ( council estimate approx. 36% ) is a fairer system that raising tax for everyone.

If we pay before March 1st we need only pay £25, so we will do that.... There's no mention of subsequent years' payments.

It would be too much hassle to take garden waste to our tip. I am a non driver but the main gardener in this household.

Gwyn

Oh Ann, I was sat here wondering if I missed something and I was paying for my recyling bin. I come under Gloucester not Tewkesbury thats why.

Anne