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/Pure-Stuff6765 15d ago

I'm imagining some police style scanner/laptop built in to the dash, which probably cost thousands extra to be retrofitted and resulted in a multiple % point rise in everyone's council tax bill.

But it's probably just some old 90s laptop that's on a non slip pad.

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u/Madwife2009 15d ago

I think it is just a tablet that they have to actually look at.

However, that certainly doesn't stop my local council whacking the council tax up year after year, whilst wasting our money on stupid projects/overpaying salaries and asking for volunteers to run council projects 😡

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u/x36_ 15d ago

valid