Charging for green waste

[venceremos]

Sept 27, 2024 18:03:13 GMT 1 staffordshrew said:

Sept 27, 2024 15:39:48 GMT 1 venceremos said:

Just about to "subscribe" (it's an extra little tax, let's not pretend) for the service and noticed their little note about food waste:

"As we can't charge for food waste collections these will need to be suspended from 1 October 2024 whilst we develop and introduce a new weekly service from April 2026."  

Does that mean they're forbidden from ever charging for food waste, or does it mean they're just not in a position to charge for it now but will be from April 2026?

I'm still baffled as to why food waste can no longer go in the green waste bin. That's not been properly explained at all.

We're a vegetarian household so our kitchen waste is green waste anyway. I guess we'll just cut out the middle man and put our "kitchen" plant waste straight in the green bin!

Rats?  They love food waste.  Apparently they also love living under decking, so much for all those garden makeover programmes that used to bung in the decking every time.

You have to wonder why councils, that need to supplement their income with these extra charges - they'll probably be bin snooping to check people aren't putting their green waste in the ordinary bin - then fining them if they do next, and baulk at providing social care, think they can afford to buy shopping centres?

Just emptied the kitchen waste bin - it's a lot of apple peelings, apple cores, vegetable offcuts.  They can check our green bin as often as they like but the kitchen waste is all plants so it's all still going in the green bin regardless.

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Rats and Councils in the same thread :-)

[thesensationaljt]

Now we can't put food waste in there, I don't think there will be any fing in my green bin this week.

Can I have a refund?