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Norfolk County Council has an offer on for compost bins through Blackwall - the recycling people.

220ltr - £4
330ltr - £6

700ltr - £20.00

Call 0845 077 0759

You are only allowed 3 bins and must be a Norfolk Council resident

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blimey, for the same bins in Bexley, Blackwall are charging more than double! They take absolutely ages to deliver too. Up to 6 weeks!

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Hmm this is odd cos in warwickshire they are £5 for the 330ltr & £15 for the 700ltr ! Mine came within 2 weeks. I'm trying to get a couple of my neighbours to have some so I can have the extra's

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Oh dear, and I thought they were really good value

I would like to know why the council don't give them away to reduce landfill or give a discount on rates depending on the quantity you have

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Hi PC. I asked about the pricing and apparently they are bought by the council (using the landfill tax) and we only pay for carriage. Seem fair and the prices I quoted were last October/November so they may well have gone up. The 330lt ones normally sell for about £50 !!! so not a bad price whatever we pay.

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Highland Council offered compost bins for £5 last year but underestimated quantities quite severely - our town was only issued with 72 bins for 4200 households !
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P.S - I got two

Our council doesnt do any offers on composters because we have brown bins for glass and compostables so the council can get free compost instead of us getting our own free compost grrrrrrrrrrr

I don't have one but most people in my village pay about £30 a year to have brown bins and get them emptied.

Thanks ntg, it''s nice to know that. Think I'm going to be getting 3 if there are enough.

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We got issued with our brown bins last year -= supposed to be emptied every second week but it seems to be rather hit or miss. To their credit, if they miss your bin/bins, they will come and collect next day if you call them. We don't pay any extra for these bins - unless it's hidden in our Council Tax
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hidden in council tax, yep we pay them to steal our compost

My 3 bins arrived yesterday giving me a total of 8 compost bins

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Shetland Islands Council are really into composting - I got one wooden bin and two extensions for £5 each - mind you I had to queue for ages. I also got a duff plastic one for nothing (I just dug it ino the ground!)

Because I work with this crowd, our staff kitchen now has a Bran composter for all the T-bags etc. I thought there would be a great long list of people after the compost - so far I am the only one

At long last a work perk

cor blimey what a con that is
up in lancashire we can get up to 2 bins free from the same company blackwall if we go through lancashire county council

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preston city council do the same they collect every 2 weeks
the only problem is our general waste is attracting loads of flies and makes quite a stink in the hot weather
we pay our council tax for them to collect our garden waste which they then compost and then sell it on making more money out of us cheeky buggers

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I hope there is an uproar if they keep on doing that when they bring in the proposed new charges for refuse!

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They do this in Croydon but occasionally give you 3 bags free, but you must supply and load your own bags. So I load up the Shogun with fellow allotmenteers and take my trailler and 3 one Ton builders bags and we load up....... he he he.

We have brown bins but we are only allowed to put garden waste in them not kitchen waste. they only get my hardy weeds and anything to gross or large to go in my compost bin.

I live in Luton - at the begining of June we got the same Blackwell offer for 220lt bins for £12 on a poster through the door. I ordered one and I am still waiting. I have called them about 15 times in total asking where it is and when it will be delivered. I got a letter yesterday saying that due to high demand they can not tell me when it will be delivered and they have refunded my account with the money and will debit it again once they have commited their order.

I personally feel like writing to the council and telling them what a poor service I have had and tell them to sort there suppliers out before offering a service.

NOT A HAPPY BUNNY!!!!!!!

I am currently using my brown bin as a compost - has anyone got any ideas how i can get it to break down. it all just looks like smally stodge at the moment.

Siverfox, I would definitely write to the council and complain, your council tax will be subsidizing this offer in some way. You could also point out that they have a legal and moral responsibility to encourage recycling, which is why most councils have started to offer compost bins.

got off my hols this week and my compost bins have arrived only taken 4 wks

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Blackkitty I took your advise and wrote to the Council. After a call 10 mins after sending the email, they have sorted it out and my posts came yesterday.

Lets just hope they forget to charge

Hey Jennie whats a Bran composter?

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Hi folks, my 2 extra compost bins (330l) have just arrived (already got one in the garden). Also got a nice little silver coloured caddy with lid to go on kitchen counter for waste. Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool Council will let you have up to a maximum of 3 x 330L bins FREE! It's amazing other councils make you pay, especially with the amount of council tax we all pay. We've also got a bin for household rubbish, a bin for garden waste (so the council can make their own compost and sell it back to us - which they do!), a bag for plastic containers and tins, a box for glass, a bag for newspapers and mags and another bag for clothes, shoes etc.

Did anyone watch Richard and Judy last night - about the spy cameras in your bins. They record what you put in your bin's etc….. I cant believe it!!!!
Don't get me wrong I do recycle and I do put stuff in a bin for compost (an old one I was using until yesterda