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Details of new brown bin arrangements
24/02/2021
Cherwell District Council has told Banbury FM how the new brown bin arrangements will work from July
Banbury FM has received more details about the changes to brown bin collections from this July. We have been told that residents in the Cherwell District will have a new caddy for food waste. Each week this caddy should be placed outside to be collected. There is no charge for this service.
From July existing brown bins must only be used for garden waste. These will only be collected for residents who pay for the service.
Cherwell has defended its decision to introduce a fee for the collection of garden waste. A spokesperson for the Council told us: “Cherwell is currently the only authority in Oxfordshire which recycles garden and food waste at no additional cost. The waste is currently collected fortnightly (as you know). Under the new scheme, Cherwell will collect food waste on a weekly basis.”
Currently there is no indication as to the amount residents will have to pay for the garden waste collection service. The spokesperson said: “The existing brown bin would be for garden waste only and this would be a paid-for service. All other councils in Oxfordshire charge for garden waste collection and across the country 65% of councils do, with rates ranging from £30 to £54 per year in Oxfordshire.”
Cherwell believe the additional food waste collections will help improve our local recycling rates. They also feel the cost for collecting garden waste still makes the service worth the money. The spokesperson said: “Overall all residents will get a better food waste recycling service. And those who also choose to continue with the brown bin service will get a very good value service.
“Weekly food waste collections should increase the recycling rate above 60%, putting [Cherwell District Council] on course to be in the top ten councils nationally for recycling rates.”
The changes to the food and garden waste service are a result of Cherwell’s budget setting process for the next financial year, which was agreed on Monday evening. The Council needed to save £4.4m in the face of uncertainty around the future of the it’s funding and the impact of COVID-19.
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam
Ellen On 24/02/2021 at 11:55 am
All this and I guarantee they still put the Council Tax up in a massive way. I can see this leading to more people fly tipping their garden waste or just using the green bin. How often will they collect the brown bin for garden waste. Are we receiving new caddies? We empty ours every other day and I don’t fancy leaving it on my door step for the local cats to rip open…
L On 05/06/2021 at 12:54 am
I just can’t believe that for the first time I’ve seen ALL neighbours brown bins out for collection and as none been collected today, find out this is going to be happening from July. Do you all understand how hard it is to get the general population on bord with the whole recycling thing?! I honestly think that plastic recycling should have been thought of by companies who rake up “their” money from selling us stuff in non-environmentally friendly materials because it is quite a work to sort through recycling for today’s busy society. Now they want to introduce more bins (costing money for sure), more collections (costing even mpre money AND petrol for sure) and charge taxpayers to collect their garden waste separately?! There’s got to be a better explanation than a simple competition with other councils!
Val Matthews On 24/02/2021 at 11:57 am
If this is the case we need to be supplied with a food waste bin as we’ve never received one as food waste has gone in garden waste bin
Kevin mason On 24/02/2021 at 12:01 pm
So are they going to send another bin lorry or something else to collect the food waste or will it go in the same lorry as the garden waste
Rachael Quborsi On 26/02/2021 at 8:39 am
We empty our small caddy every other day so we would need another bin to put this waste in. Where are people going to keep extra bins?
Gemma Blackman On 24/02/2021 at 12:36 pm
I also need a food cadi
Babs Watson On 24/02/2021 at 1:06 pm
Will encourage some people to fly tip more than ever. The foxes will love the new food caddies if left on the street. Any reductions in collection charge for the elderly or people on benefits.
Andrea Davis On 25/02/2021 at 7:47 am
I agree this will bring the foxes into the town for a feeding frenzies, there will be brown food bins everywhere as most have to put their bins out. The night before die to shift working?
Dawn On 07/11/2021 at 12:58 pm
My thought s ime not bloody paying I pay enough council tax 200 mnth next it well be paying 4 other 2
Anne Shea On 24/02/2021 at 1:24 pm
How big will these food caddys be , i empty mine at least 3 times a week , wont this increase the chance of rats ?
Humphris On 24/02/2021 at 1:27 pm
The foxes and other rodents are going to have a field day with these caddys they are not strong enough
LS On 24/02/2021 at 2:37 pm
PLEASE tell me it’s not my existing food waste caddy the Council are expecting me to put out once a week? Like others here I empty mine multiple times a week (and I’m a single person!). They are so ridiculously small/lightweight they are totally open to attack from dogs/cats/foxes/vermin.
Julia Gill On 25/02/2021 at 9:37 pm
I expect it will be like many other places in the uk where it is a much bigger food caddy and the lid locks.
Rodney Rushton On 24/02/2021 at 3:02 pm
So as a start to SAVE £4.4m you are going to implement a WEEKLY food collection service, which doesn’t exist at the moment, thereby having to have extra waste collection vehicles and crews to man them. How much is that going to save?
What shall we do with the food caddys that were already issued many years ago when recycling was first introduced? We are still using ours … will we get a new one?
We were under the impression that household waste collection was covered through our Council taxes. We class our garden rubbish as household waste because it is part and parcel of our property. As of July anything from our garden will now be deposited in the general waste, i.e. green bin. Therefore our contribution to recycling of garden rubbish will effectively stop.
Finally, how will your crews know who has and who has not paid for this garden waste collection service?
Alan On 24/02/2021 at 3:43 pm
What a total waste of money. I don’t have garden waste as my garden front and back is slabbed so my brown bin may go out once a month with food waste in it . So do I get a reduction in my tax no but I will now put it all in the green bin from now on so I won’t need a brown bin is a small one that they are saying . Grrrrrrr
Les Kelland On 24/02/2021 at 4:19 pm
Do we burn garden waste again
David Swallow On 24/02/2021 at 5:26 pm
So we leave the brown bin outside for people who haven’t paid to put their waste in. Are they going to be lockable. Looks like B&Q will be busy selling garden bins for burning rubbish. I love a good bonfire
Wendy On 24/02/2021 at 5:36 pm
There be more bonfires about how is this good for the environment
Kevin Goulding On 24/02/2021 at 10:34 pm
Good job I’ve got a incinerator in my back garden and on another Point having weekly collections on food waste won’t the council spend more on fuel and people’s wages so your defeating the object . And garden waste goes into new compost which the council gets paid for so there getting twice the money !!!!
David Carpenter On 25/02/2021 at 8:37 am
So they already compost the garden and food waste and sell the compost to make a profit, now they want people to pay to have their garden waste taken away and pay for it so the council can then compost it and sell it to make more money!
Wendy stone On 26/02/2021 at 7:07 am
Who got drunk and come up with this stupid idea.
Trevor On 27/02/2021 at 12:32 pm
As most of my grass cuttings are on the highways boundary side of my property who do I send the bill to for cutting this as our dumb council are charging for garden rubbish !!!!
Pat On 28/03/2021 at 11:32 am
Diabolical.
William On 25/05/2021 at 10:41 am
The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Sara On 25/05/2021 at 12:41 pm
All my garden waste is leaves that fall into my garden from trees on Council property. Will the council come to collect their leaves – it will save me a huge job!
Tim Varney On 25/05/2021 at 1:45 pm
Will the council be collecting unwanted Brown Bins ? . Hear the cost of Brown Bin collections will be around £50 per annum . For the amount of garden rubbish I create it will be cheaper for me to take the tip .
Diane Makin On 03/06/2021 at 5:20 pm
Amazing how the council has enough money to buy the Castle Quay Centre and that huge old hotel in Banbury but can’t afford to collect the brown bins. Could someone explain that to me?
Bill Fisk On 19/07/2021 at 2:10 pm
This typical Cherwell District Council out of touch with reality. Introduce more cost to try and save money. They state other areas already pay for their garden bins well other areas have their glass collected for free where as we have to take our glass to local collection points, the trade off was that we had our garden waste bins provided for free and we took our glass to local collection points, Now it would appear we will be worse off than other areas. They have not factored in the extra amount of fly tipping they will have to pay to collect, the extra waste in the green general rubbish bins this will create due to garden waste being placed in the green bins and the pollution from bonfires people will have burning off garden rubbish. You watch the year on year hike in garden bin cost on top of every increasing community charge for houses. This is just another stealth tax under the cover of recycling. Best way of saving some money would be to close the department that came up with this hair brain idea.