New bin collections

I'm all in favour of recycling plastic bottles and cans. S Bucks have been dojng this for years. I'm not so pleased with the Garden waste charge (although i will probably end up paying it). We pay enough Council Tax as it is. The woods near our house are already heaving with junk that's been dumped there and this will be added to by the people who won't pay the Green Bin tax, won't compost and are too lazy to take their green waste to the dump.

You can't put garden waste such as branches frmo tree pruning etc in yoru compost. That would take years to decompose. On the whole the idea is good but why have to separate kitchen and garden waste? I really don't want another wheelie bin or more recylcing boxes. My side path is full of them as it is

I pay £1400 a year in council tax im not paying anymore! What the hell do they do with all that money?

Annoying Jamie wrote: I pay £1400 a year in council tax im not paying anymore! What the hell do they do with all that money?   Oh yes of course,they spend it on a load of silly lefty nonsense.

I think they sent you some information on where the oney goes with your Council Tax information earlier this year.

Not sure Chiltern District Council spend much money on "lefty nonsense" given the representation of parties across councillors https://isa.chiltern.gov.uk/democracy/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=PARTY&VW=LIST&PIC=0

I read my mailshots this week too, also in disbelief.

All this is about is getting us to do the Council's job for them. To the poster who said we had 'free' collection before, that's incorrect - it was funded from the Council tax. And it still should be.

The Council considers itself underfunded, so raises funds to do the grass pickups in this manner. Without question there are other areas in the Council's publicy funded budget that can be trimmed to accomodate this, but they don't consider that an option, it's far easier for them to dress this up as 'greening' and childly paste 'Good news' all over the pamphlets. The accounts are all publicly available online, I urge you to read them. (I'll post a link later).

You need to write to the Council like I have done, our discussions on here won't get noticed.

Some of us have very large families and the Council's concept of alternatively driving our lawnmowers clippings and branches miles to the nearest refuse centre in a kid-freindly car whilst juggling children is, at the very best, insulting.

I suggest we dump all the clippings outside the Councils offices and see what they think of that.