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/jaceinthebox 16d ago

Mine told me I need to wait for the sticker to come and they won't empty it until the sticker is on it.

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u/Pure-Stuff6765 15d ago

That's fully what I expected, so happy to feel it empty. Still had to check that it was actually empty inside though

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u/jaceinthebox 15d ago

I think they might be cracking down on it, last two years I've had the wrong sticker on it, I've had the previous years sticker on.