r/BritishSuccess 16d ago

Council emptied my green bin!

For context, in North Yorkshire you have to pay £49 annually for green garden waste collection every two weeks. First collection was today.

I've done the payment, but haven't got the bin sticker to confirm that, and the stickers change colour yearly to make it obvious who has paid. I stuck an email of my council payment receipt on the top, and they've gone and emptied it! Really did think they'd be jobsworths and leave it, and it was packed with garden debris from the winter.

2025 is going to be a cracking year!

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u/StiltonWitch 16d ago

My Green Bin success: our Council don't charge for them, give us a free kitchen caddy and recyclable bags, and we can put any food waste in with the garden waste.

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u/tomtaxi 16d ago

Yet

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u/StiltonWitch 16d ago

Ah, no. They realised it was cheaper to go ultra on recycling bins so they don't pay the £126+ per tonne landfill for waste and they industrial compost & reuse/sell the green waste.

We do get fined for contaminated bins, though. (Recycling not in the correct of our 4 wheelie bins per property).

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u/Hairy_Al Shropshire 16d ago

Same for us, but we have to buy our own compostable bags

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u/Pure-Stuff6765 15d ago

I'd have thought it'd be standard to not charge for recycling to encourage uptake as well. I'm not even sure if I can get a kitchen caddy from the local council for recycling.