My green wheeliebin has arrived

wheeliebin - I like it!

nope, don't need a bin for garden waste, no garden!

Now, once a week, we can put out leaves, grass clippings in allowed bags or in dumpable bins for the city to pick up. They use it to make "Dillo Dirt" and sell it.

I haven't got a Garden any more but the Landlord and his Daughter do have them as they both have a Garden
The only thing I need to ask is p1 why are they charging you as far as I am concerned you pay enough Council Tax, so why do they want more money it is stupid

I doing my own compoasting so my waste goes into the compost bin. Household food waste also goes into the bin so I am saving a lot of garbage from having to be picked up. I can get a container from my garbage collection company for yard waste etc for the cost of $16 a month but I don't need it at all anymore. Otherwise I can set a standadrd garbage bag curbside on collection day with yard waste for the cost of $3 per bag if needed.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

Thos green bins are definately breeding I'm seeing them everywhere these days. I don't even have a bin we have to put our bags at at 7am on bin collection day and then every fortnight a van comes round to collect from a green box all glass, paper, material, batteries and tins and cans. We have to take all garden waste, cardboard and plastics up to the local tip. I really do wish we had one for garden waste and I wouldn't mind paying the £26 per year either for it, much more convenient. Where I used to live we had two large wheelie bins, one black for general rubbish, one green for food waste paper and cardboard and then we had two smaller bins for glass and plastics and tins which we used to have to walk up the road with to larger wheelie type bins and dispose of in the separate ones, clear glass, coloured etc. I much preferred this system, we also had a communal gardener so I didn't have to worry re that waste then. I really wish this area would introduce the wheely bins as the gulls split the bags open and it can look horrendous on bin day. Ellie:D

To decipher this for North American viewers...

A fortnight is some gibberish that has to do with two weeks. God only knows how that saying came into use. Perhaps twoweeks was your stint on duty in a fort I don't know...

And bin is a garbage can.

I am suprised that you have garden stuff to toss away. I would have thought you might compost your garden stuff. Folks in the UK love their gardens don't they? Isn't composting practiced there to near excess?

What aint your local council doing that already P!ke?
We have had that for a few years now,green bin for household rubbish,then a few years later brown bin for garden waste & a blue box for empty cans.tins.
Each emptied every fortnight,except for blue box which is ever week,oh & we got a bag too for clothing,if we have any old ones of course.
All free for everyone.

Pike here in my home town all we have to do is pile it on the curb and once a week they come by with chipper machines and suck it right up. Of course this is a service we pay for in our trash and sewage portion of the electric bills. Out of the city limits they provide a trash bin at a much higher cost.

We are behing the times here..we have just one wheeliebin which is green...but not meant for garden waste!!..and this bin is for all household refuse..this is emptied once every two weeks...now thats fine for us,and with the recycling thing..yes it is OK for us..but what about those who have families!!I ask you..if you have a family there is no way that one bin is enough!

Do you actually have to pya or do you just mean out of council tax?

we have the bin with the green lid which is for garden waste and cardboard. This has made a huge difference. We didn't get them until quite a few months into the every 2 week normal bin collection.
Originally they said that it wasn't suitable for us to have these bins so instead we had the plastic bags (what a waste) This was hopeless as we'd use them and never get any back because of greedy neighbours taking them. They once stole my glas bin though even though it had my address on, next recycling day they put it out with my address still on! the cheek of it.

Anyway i've drifted away from my point1 I managed to get a bin of them and it is wonderful, our normal bin is never full after the two weeks. It's amazing how much cardboard you use. We don't have as much garden waste but it helps us out when we do have a big garden clear up.

We have wheelie bins for household waste, recycle waste and garden waste.
The only one we do not have is the garden waste bin.
We reuse all our grass cuttings as mulch.
And do not have many tree's that need pruning, so for us a garden waste bin was needless spending.

Now tell me Pikey "where have you wheelie bin" ROFLMAO