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I worked on the bins for a while once upon one winter not so long ago. The worst round was for the yellow ones - medical waste.  ;D 

That must be disgusting!!  Sympathies.

Our council delivered brown wheelie bins to each household with a garden yesterday, especially for garden waste but no soil was to be included, which must be difficult to exclude if you have been weeding.  Have given ours back, as like everybody on here I expect, ours goes on the compost heap.  It is sort of a good idea I suppose but I wondered what happens to the end product, does the council hope to redistribute to gardeners as working compost?  It doesn't say on the little leaflet we got.  busy_lizzie 

Our council turn it into compost, then charge you the earth for a bag!  :-\

One odd thought struck just now. I have spent the last week or more cutting down the stuff in the Daisy Lawn, still about a third to do, and I have filled the 3 compost bins so say 12 cu mts, plus about the same amount behind the bins and another couple of cu mts just lying around the place waiting to be collected. The nice brown bin holds about half a cubic metre at most. Quarts in pint pots? Still its a good place for all those roses I am throwing away.

Also want to know how they are going to see if you have put any soil in the bin. Are they going to empty it out on the pavement before shovelling it in to the machine? (Yes I know they do that now!)

No wheelie bins here, and no recycling collection either, just the old black bags. They keep telling us we are going to have wheelie bins (colour unknown!!) for our household waste, collected fortnightly, and green boxes for our recyclables collected alternately. Still waiting!!

Since I live in an area of close, terraced houses, many of which are inhabited by students and the unemployed, (ie full occupancy - LOADS of people) you'd think we would be a priority! Oh, and there's no 'bring' site here either. We diligently lug our 'embarrassment collection' to the nearest bottle bank about once a week, but most people just dump them in the black bags. Even when they collect our recyclables they will not be collecting glass - health and safety they say.

EJ our council's compost is free. Just turn up and help yourself to the mound.