Does your Council make a profit then or does the money they make from selling the green waste for compost mean better local services or lower Council Tax?
Good question - don't know if the council make a profit. The compost is sold by an independent company who have already been paid by the council to collect the leaves - I don't know if the council then receives any money from the sale of it. I'm going to email them and find out.
If they put the money back into providing a better service for us, then I'd be happy with that, but at the moment they're not doing much to convince me - we've gone onto fortnightly bin collections (like much of the country), they've just decided to charge disabled drivers for parking, cut the amount of time the disabled swimming club can use the pool as they don't pay full price for using it and spent millions of pounds refurbishing the town's car parks installing a new pay-as-you-go ticket system which will enable them to not only put up the price of parking, but will earn them more money.
We're having hundreds more flats built across the town to meet the housing targets and no new infrastructure provided for the rise in population. Our schools are massively over - subscribed and they're still trying to close two of them!
As for council tax - it's ruinous and each year we seem to get less and less for it.
Sorry - this thread was about the joys of leaf collecting - I'll stop ranting now. If it wasn't dark outside, I'd go and rake some up to calm down! ;D
Tabby
