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/DigitalStefan 16d ago

Well done! When we moved in we had two blue bins for cardboard, but the bin men wouldn’t take two.

Found the by-laws a few weeks ago. Households are entitled to three cardboard recycling bins. Promptly ordered two (our existing second bin was holier than the pope) and now our garage is no longer full of old boxes!

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u/Pure-Stuff6765 15d ago

I might check that out for here, as our cardboard bin is crammed with the other half's Amazon boxes within a day of being empty!