Recycling changes...

Mudgie

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Facepalm all you like. I stated a fact when I said ‘some people’.

It’s less than a quid a week for something we are have already paid for within council tax and now they want to charge us again. I haven’t decided whether I will pay for it as I hardly use the brown bin. As it seems like I can put garden waste in the green bin, I will most likely use that. Or when needed, I will go up to the tip/recycling centre.

I’m lucky as I could afford to pay the new charge but without any doubt, there will be lots of people who can’t. Where does this leave them?
"Where does this leave them?"
Fly tipping ?
 

c0tt0nt0p

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Facepalm all you like. I stated a fact when I said ‘some people’.

It’s less than a quid a week for something we are have already paid for within council tax and now they want to charge us again. I haven’t decided whether I will pay for it as I hardly use the brown bin. As it seems like I can put garden waste in the green bin, I will most likely use that. Or when needed, I will go up to the tip/recycling centre.

I’m lucky as I could afford to pay the new charge but without any doubt, there will be lots of people who can’t. Where does this leave them?
My post wasnt responding to your post but more the post that you were responding to....(if you get me)...
 

Cue

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Imagine trying to spin it as “safeguarding services” without acknowledging that councils are horrendously underfunded
 

Mudgie

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We've all been sent a card with the instruction ""to continue using this service you need to sign up and pay online at ..........."
What about those council tax payers that don't do online banking or don't even have a bank account and/or computer ?
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
We've all been sent a card with the instruction ""to continue using this service you need to sign up and pay online at ..........."
What about those council tax payers that don't do online banking or don't even have a bank account and/or computer ?
It makes life a lot easier and its fairly easy to set up. If you need guidance I am sure your branch can help. You don’t even need a PC/Laptop, you can do it on your phone.
 

Mudgie

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It makes life a lot easier and its fairly easy to set up. If you need guidance I am sure your branch can help. You don’t even need a PC/Laptop, you can do it on your phone.
I don't understand how someone without a bank account could do it on their 'phone.
 

Mudgie

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Do they accept postal orders ?
I don't know.
The card we were all sent had the instruction ""to continue using this service you need to sign up and pay online at ..........." without indicating what other methods of payment were and were not accepted by them.
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
I don't understand how someone without a bank account could do it on their 'phone.
Sorry. I thought you were talking about you. I assumed everyone who had a permanent address had some form of bank account. A homeowner or renter would be the person who would be taking on this service and without question they may, although unlikely, not have a bank account. FCA published a report a few years back that 1.3 million adults in the uk did not have bank accounts due to no fixed abode, being “illiterate” or due to former financial issues. So feasible for someone not to have a bank account and feasible that they may want this service. I suspect a call to the council would potentially remedy it.
 

Mudgie

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Sorry. I thought you were talking about you. I assumed everyone who had a permanent address had some form of bank account. A homeowner or renter would be the person who would be taking on this service and without question they may, although unlikely, not have a bank account. FCA published a report a few years back that 1.3 million adults in the uk did not have bank accounts due to no fixed abode, being “illiterate” or due to former financial issues. So feasible for someone not to have a bank account and feasible that they may want this service. I suspect a call to the council would potentially remedy it.
I was referring to someone like myself who, though neither quite “illiterate” nor having "former financial issues", has never had monthly or quarterly standing orders and has never bought anything in a shop or pub with a credit or debit card.
And I'm also referring to those without bank accounts.
 

MilleD

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This is the key bit:

Green Bin – if you have space, garden waste can be disposed of in your green bin


https://www.staffordbc.gov.uk/brownbin

They appear to have removed that little nugget as far as I can see.

Personally I don't really have an issue with the charge. It's a non statutory service so was always going to be in the firing line.

Perhaps club together with a neighbour and pay half?
 
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MilleD

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I was referring to someone like myself who, though neither quite “illiterate” nor having "former financial issues", has never had monthly or quarterly standing orders and has never bought anything in a shop or pub with a credit or debit card.
And I'm also referring to those without bank accounts.

Is your whole life spent going to places to pay them cash? :lorks:
 

Lucy

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I am sure the council will be aware of those with difficulties.

I work for a company that accepts DDs as standard, however I've wandered past reception from time to time when someone has walked in asking to pay cash. Just because it's not offered to everyone doesn't mean it can't or won't be done.
 

The Hawk

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They appear to have removed that little nugget as far as I can see.

Personally I don't really have an issue with the charge. It's a non statutory service so was always going to be in the firing line.

Perhaps club together with a neighbour and pay half?
They have indeed removed the reference to using the green bin on their website.

However, I think it was mentioned on the cards they sent out.

Oh, and it is a statutory service, despite their carefully worded propaganda. It's just that they don't have to provide a separate bin for garden waste.
 
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