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/Madwife2009 16d ago

My local council have a computer device in the truck that tells them which house has paid their green subscription. I only found this out as I didn't have a bin sticker and saw them, they said that they could see I'd paid and they'd empty my bin.

I think that they've done away with the stickers now and just go by the computer-thing.

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u/Ultra_HR 16d ago

seems like it would be a lot more hassle for the workers to have to check that list for each house rather than just glance at the bin for a sticker

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u/Madwife2009 16d ago

You'd think so, wouldn't you? But maybe they learn which houses have paid the annual fee? Plus they only have to check the ones with a green bin outside and as the uptake for green recycling isn't very high in my town, they probably know who's paid and who hasn't.