Council garden waste collection£££

Well it looks as if it is happening here in Northampton next year £45/year to collect garden waste, I expected this charge to catch up with us sooner or later as it happens in other boroughs. I won't pay the extra as my garden is quite small and will take any grass cuttings to my allotment where I do my composting and already take lots of kitchen waste now, any branches e.t.c I will take to the council recycling centre. Whether they get enough people to use the new service to keep it viable is questionable. I suppose they will charge for all household recycling in the future.
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But I have no doubt the time will come..
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
We have a medium sized garden and maintain 4 compost bins but there is still too much by way of gluts in garden waste to dispose of in the compost bins. For example lawn clippings are incorporated into compost and stored to layer with autumn leaves, but there's still a glut of clippings by August. Similarly in the autumn I collect as many leaves as I need for leaf mould but the rest go in the council bin. And about half the hedge trimmings. And all the perennial weeds I really don't want in the compost (ground elder, creeping buttercup, ivy etc etc)
It's worth a pound a week to have an easy way to get rid of stuff I can't or don't want to use.
..I'd say for those of us who don't drive, don't go out much, and don't have room for composting... it's an absolute godsend... and I would struggle without it... so well worth the fees..
We're charged here, no idea how much as I dispose of everything on site.