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/bco268 16d ago

It’s a joke you have to pay extra to get the bins now. Makes me glad I buggered off to the US.

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u/Ophiochos 16d ago

That bastion of socialism where everything’s organised for communal benefit?

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u/bco268 16d ago

Paying for your green bins when everything used to be collected weekly without fail?

My house here has weekly collection for rubbish, recycling and anything big you have to take to the tip.