On 04/03/2014 17:21, dave wrote:
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:12:45 +0000, GMM GlMiMa-AT-yahoo.co.uk wrote:

The spring is coming and, inconveniently, our LA has stopped its 'all
you can eat' approach to green waste, so now we have to rent wheelie
bins. Although you can rent more than one, and we'll get a couple,
there's a limit to how many dirty great bins you can have around the
place, and I reckon that 2 weeks of cutting our grass will probably fill
one of them. We also 'employ' a gardener (yup, it's a pretty big
garden). Although he's getting on a bit, he still seems to be able to
cut down a lot of stuff in teh few hours he's here.
The obvious solution (which most people will take) is, unfortunately, to
burn the excess, as the last thing I want is to accumulate piles of
rat-infested compost heaps that never get used.
So....What's the best arrangement for burnign garden waste? Obviously,
it needs a bit of time to dry out first, but this can be reduced by
getting a good blaze going. My first thought was/is a galvanised
incinerator bin but before I get one, I thought someone here might have
some insight.

Cheers chaps

Just to report same here in S.E. Notts. The LT charge £10 for a new
(brown) bin (that's bins No 3). Plus they want £30 pa to have it
collected every 2 weeks during "the season". I can see fly-tipping on
the increase rsn - not by me I hasten to add. This is the bits 'n
pieces approach that seems to have been discovered big time. eg
Airline co's charges are now broken into many parts that add up to a
lot more that a mere airticket. The NHS is probably the Meister of
this approach. Councils are doing a similar thing by splitting various
tasks off from the Council charges (while not reducing it of course)
and charging us for each one (yes - we had them 'for free' before -
not)

I couldn't agree more although, having said that, I don't really mind
paying, it's more the impracticality of the new arangement that's a
pain. I can't see everyone suddenly being happy to spend their weekends
queuing for the tip with a car full of smelly garden waste (not to
mention all that CO2 spewing out of their car engines while they wait!).
The alternatives are either fly-tipping, as you point out, making the
garden into a huge compost heap and burning, which is the 'traditional'
approach.
The other possibility is to scrape the garden bare and have it tarmaced....