Garden Waste Subscription

Potential Incentive

Pros

Cons

Saturday Freighters – deployment of vehicles every Saturday between the months of April and September in prearranged locations across the district. 

Skips on Saturdays in prearranged locations across the district.

No subscription cost for users

The service could not cater for every village

Requires the resident to transport their garden waste to a defined location on a designated date and time in their area 

Subsidised price home composters - promoted along with information on home composting. In order to reduce the volume of waste generated, and to minimise food waste entering the residual waste stream. 

Advertised along with new service mail out

Transport mileage of waste removed

Cost to resident (but subsidised)

Community compost schemes – working with Town and Parish Councils, along with Allotment Associations to enable and influence community led composting schemes.

Residents learn how to compost

Transport mileage of waste removed

Needs communities to buy-in to the concept and training/expertise required for success

Free loose compost – working with Town and Parish Councils, along with Allotment Associations, to get residents engaged with composting in their community. 

Work with the parish councils to arrange free compost giveaways

Compost located in accessible locations for residents

The compost will be loose and will require the resident to bag the material for removal

Local land management green bin incentives – local residents who volunteer to cut grass in community areas are offered a garden bin and the annual subscription charge is waived

Allows local residents who cut the grass in local communal areas access to a free garden bin to support them in this role

Some areas may not have local champions maintaining their green communal areas

Local businesses sponsor bins for those on low income or in receipt of benefits or area of a community

Benefit to residents in need / community and business advertising

Administrative and logistic issues

Small number of free bins available for parish councils to donate to residents in need – management of who receives the bins at the discretion of the parish council

Benefit to residents in need.

Added burden to parish councils

Difficult to establish a fair process for distribution