Among the latter is West Lindsey District Council, which provides collections to households in part of the area served by Brigg Blog, including Bigby, Grasby, Owmby, Searby, Kettleby and North and South Kelsey.
Based in Gainsborough, the authority says it is considering charging for the garden waste (green bin) collection service from April 2018.
"We want you to tell us how you use the garden waste service at the moment and what you think about the proposed change," it says.
"Your feedback will be used by Councillors as they decide how the service will operate.
"You can do this by taking part in our consultation which will runs to 19 November 2017."
Here's the link you need if you are a Brigg Blog follower who lives in West Lindsey, which borders Brigg at the southerly end of Westrum Lane and also on Bigby High Road, close to Brigg Garden Centre.
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For the rest of us who get our local government services provided by North Lincolnshire Council we should stress that it has made NO MENTION of a charge for garden waste collection.
Our garden bins, of course, are brown, not green as used by West Lindsey.
We've always wondered why councils across Britain do not use the same colour-coding system for waste bins and recycling boxes.
West Lindsey's consultation on garden waste collection will end on November 19.
It says it's "the last authority in Lincolnshire" still offering this service for free.
By that it means the last authority in Lincolnshire County Council's area, where they still have district councils.
North Lincolnshire Council is a unitary body, providing all services.
The "second tier" bin-emptying council serving Brigg - Glanford Borough - was removed in 1996, together with Humberside County Council.
North Lincolnshire Council then took over local refuse collection, including garden waste.
There's fors and againsts in this debate....for example, some folks don't have gardens, while others may have extensive ones, but each council tax payer makes a contribution.
ReplyDeleteAre non-garden, flat dwellers supplied with a green bin?
Some may need several green bins...is their financial fairness and actual need?
Some of the garden refuse could be composted....in contrast, it's difficult to transport a green bin to a community site.
Should there be a local/street skip?
In my travels, I've observed that some council's supply reusable canvas bags instead of bins....easier to transport to a community site....and possibly charge according to the number of such bags a householder has.
Perhaps a priority for the Council is persuade some folks to get rid of the rubbish outside their house...go round Brigg and it want be long b4 you spot old furniture, disused mechanical parts, abandoned kids'toys laying about in some gardens.
......Perhaps another consideration is to put bar-codes on green been and charge according to frequency/weight of/at collections.
But would become financially counter-productive ....one would need an administrative level to collate and dispatch
bills....and add cost of postage...?
.....but what did gardeners do in the past...apart from composting, they burnt it..
ReplyDeleteNow there seems a misconception that burning strict garden rubbish harms the environment.
Indeed, is it carbon-neutral...burning garden rubbish including wood (c.f. wood burning stoves) gives off the same gases as it if decayed naturally.
Growing and then decaying, or burning completes a cycle...growth assumed elements/compounds, destruction by decay/burning returns the same amount of elements/compounds to the evironment...nothing added, or gained.
In contrast, fossil fuels, oil, coal, gas when consumed releases extra constituents into the atomsphrere...consituents that have been trapped for millions of years are released in a very short time period that the atmosphere is overwhelmed.
There is nothing chemically, or environmentally wrong with burning garden refuse....now it's more of a social convention not to, with the added imputous that some folks feel it is wrong and detrimental to the environment...
So if you think dispatching your garden grass cuttings, shrub cuttings off in a council Cary is helping the environment....when you stuff decays, it gives off the same constituents as if you had incinerated it....Much better to use less petrol and coal - that's the naughty stuff.
.....but what did gardeners do in the past...apart from composting, they burnt it..
ReplyDeleteNow there seems a misconception that burning strict garden rubbish harms the environment.
Indeed, is it carbon-neutral...burning garden rubbish including wood (c.f. wood burning stoves) gives off the same gases as it if decayed naturally.
Growing and then decaying, or burning completes a cycle...growth assumed elements/compounds, destruction by decay/burning returns the same amount of elements/compounds to the evironment...nothing added, or gained.
In contrast, fossil fuels, oil, coal, gas when consumed releases extra constituents into the atomsphrere...consituents that have been trapped for millions of years are released in a very short time period that the atmosphere is overwhelmed.
There is nothing chemically, or environmentally wrong with burning garden refuse....now it's more of a social convention not to, with the added imputous that some folks feel it is wrong and detrimental to the environment...
So if you think dispatching your garden grass cuttings, shrub cuttings off in a council Cary is helping the environment....when you stuff decays, it gives off the same constituents as if you had incinerated it....Much better to use less petrol and coal - that's the naughty stuff.
.....vis-a-vis the straw baled power plant in Scawby Brook...carbon neutral.
ReplyDeleteSomeone may have the bright idea to attached a C02 pipe from a straw-bale power plant into a range of tomoto-growing greenhouses....the time benefit enormously...but there is a cycle of nothing lost, or gained..brilliant...oh, perhaps it's been invented already....but that's not stopping the Scawby Brook plant entering a bit of market gardening....but what do they did with their dead plants...oh, yes, recycle it to form a natural cycle.
.....vis-a-vis the straw baled power plant in Scawby Brook...carbon neutral.
ReplyDeleteSomeone may have the bright idea to attached a C02 pipe from a straw-bale power plant into a range of tomoto-growing greenhouses....the time benefit enormously...but there is a cycle of nothing lost, or gained..brilliant...oh, perhaps it's been invented already....but that's not stopping the Scawby Brook plant entering a bit of market gardening....but what do they did with their dead plants...oh, yes, recycle it to form a natural cycle.