it seemed easy enough, after all, she had been given a bin specifically for her garden waste, on top of the discarded shrubs she placed two tiny squares of turf she'd removed from the lawn and closed the lid, but what appeared to be the simplest of tasks ended in farce after local bin police refused to take it away - because it contained soil from the turf,
in a statement I can only say I find incredulous the bin police said that any grass or plants have to have the soil washed away, I wonder if this will apply in the summer when there is a hose pipe ban?
the 46-year-old divorced secretary from Yeovil, Somerset, pays £25 a year for the special fortnightly collection, run on behalf of her local council, the mother-of-two and keen gardener thought it was a good idea at first, but when Somerset Waste Partnership refused to take her bin because of the 'contamination' she was appalled, She said the Waste Partnership told her plants, shrubs, grass cuttings, weeds, leaves, bark, hedge pruning, and small tree branches and even saw dust was allowed - but not soil, or flowers or turf with soil attached and there was me thinking that eventually the waste turned into soil, so what is a little extra going to do?
a spokesman for the Partnership - which has a contract with South Somerset District Council and collects the garden waste every two weeks - said the soil in the bin would have affected the compost.
Saturday 28 March 2009
The Bin Police Strike Again!
after a day's hard graft in the garden Karen Kelly tidied away,
it seemed easy enough, after all, she had been given a bin specifically for her garden waste, on top of the discarded shrubs she placed two tiny squares of turf she'd removed from the lawn and closed the lid, but what appeared to be the simplest of tasks ended in farce after local bin police refused to take it away - because it contained soil from the turf,
in a statement I can only say I find incredulous the bin police said that any grass or plants have to have the soil washed away, I wonder if this will apply in the summer when there is a hose pipe ban?
the 46-year-old divorced secretary from Yeovil, Somerset, pays £25 a year for the special fortnightly collection, run on behalf of her local council, the mother-of-two and keen gardener thought it was a good idea at first, but when Somerset Waste Partnership refused to take her bin because of the 'contamination' she was appalled, She said the Waste Partnership told her plants, shrubs, grass cuttings, weeds, leaves, bark, hedge pruning, and small tree branches and even saw dust was allowed - but not soil, or flowers or turf with soil attached and there was me thinking that eventually the waste turned into soil, so what is a little extra going to do?
a spokesman for the Partnership - which has a contract with South Somerset District Council and collects the garden waste every two weeks - said the soil in the bin would have affected the compost.
it seemed easy enough, after all, she had been given a bin specifically for her garden waste, on top of the discarded shrubs she placed two tiny squares of turf she'd removed from the lawn and closed the lid, but what appeared to be the simplest of tasks ended in farce after local bin police refused to take it away - because it contained soil from the turf,
in a statement I can only say I find incredulous the bin police said that any grass or plants have to have the soil washed away, I wonder if this will apply in the summer when there is a hose pipe ban?
the 46-year-old divorced secretary from Yeovil, Somerset, pays £25 a year for the special fortnightly collection, run on behalf of her local council, the mother-of-two and keen gardener thought it was a good idea at first, but when Somerset Waste Partnership refused to take her bin because of the 'contamination' she was appalled, She said the Waste Partnership told her plants, shrubs, grass cuttings, weeds, leaves, bark, hedge pruning, and small tree branches and even saw dust was allowed - but not soil, or flowers or turf with soil attached and there was me thinking that eventually the waste turned into soil, so what is a little extra going to do?
a spokesman for the Partnership - which has a contract with South Somerset District Council and collects the garden waste every two weeks - said the soil in the bin would have affected the compost.
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