Property News · December 6, 2019

Rubbish charges: from £96 for garden waste to £1.50 for a toilet


Tempers fray around the UK over high recycling fees – which some say are encouraging fly-tippingIn Dundee, Hartlepool and Fife, some residents are furious at £35 charges for collecting brown bins that come into force next year. In Richmond upon Thames, the council halted a £41 charge for household rubble due to begin this week after an angry backlash.But these are just the latest skirmishes in a war over rubbish rumbling across the UK. Nowhere is the phrase “postcode lottery” more applicable than in rubbish collection. In Harlow in Essex, residents must pay £96 a year if they want their garden waste collected from the brown bin. Ten miles up the road in Bishop’s Stortford, there is no charge. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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