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Garden waste brown bins already cost £65 a year to empty around here and they have done for years . They are emptied every other week.

Not a problem, my soft stuff goes in the compost bin and I take my other garden waste to the tip 5 miles away getting there at 8am when it opens so I don't have to queue up.
I also take the waste for an elderly neighbour who doesn't have a car.

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They won't take garden waste here you have to take it to the local tip or pay for large item removal, I think it's £40 for first item and £30 for each subsequent item. You book it and can have 3 removals per year any more than that you have to pay a lot more because they fine you plus the original charge.

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If you did that around here your bin would not be emptied.

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We are charged £25 a year for brown bin (garden waste) collection here in my part of East Sussex

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£65 a year!! so you pay that as well as your council tax daylight robbery.

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We are charged £35 annually here for brown bin waste...I really couldnt do without a brown bin so have to pay that.
Thats garden waste in the brown bin here.

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We have green bins for landfill, grey bins for recycle and a green bag for garden stuff, for which I pay £25 a year. They go every other week. There's a black box for glass which goes every 4 weeks. We don't do food waste yet. My black box blew away last year and I didn't want to pay for another, so take my glass to the local car park where they recycle glass

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We've always paid for garden waste collection. £48 for bin, which now appears to have halved in size, and large brown paper sacks are £26 for ten. (can't remember exact price but, thereabouts) they keep forgetting to take mine so I keep phoning. If the bags are out for a couple of days they break up if it's damp. It would be nice of they sold the compost they make at a cheap rate. I don't know where it ends up, in the parks I expect.

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Wow pity folk with a small garden !!!

We have Black Bin for Land Fill
We have Green for recycle
Brown for Garden waste

We take all bottles and papers to the local supermarket where they have a corner set aside with big collection bins.

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We have a black wheelie bin for general rubbish, a black box for paper and glass, a brown box for plastic, foil and cardboard .... and a small brown flip lid container for food waste. We take anything big to the local tip ourselves.