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Tim Watts writes:
On 20/12/14 20:41, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
South Beds (back when it existed) got a government grant to buy all the
garden compost wheelie bins (probably 15 years ago?), but they made a
profit from the collection, composting, and sale of garden compost.

Councils which charged for garden waste collection generally got far too
small participation for it to be a profitable business.

Rother has this year switched from free to chargeable garden waste.

Interesting. Reading (and other places) tried to do that, and goverment
told them the charge would count against them as a council tax increase,
and so they abandoned the idea and it remains free AFAIK.

Although collection of garden waste in Reading was free from the
beginning, residents had to buy the garden recycling bin, so the
take-up was not universal by any means.

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Andrew Gabriel
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