Only 22,000 out of 111,000 households sign up
South Gloucestershire Council’s admission that only 22,000 local residents have signed up to the council’s controversial green bin charging is ‘alarming’, say campaigners,
Cllr Ian Adams (Con, Siston and Warmley) is the Conservative Lead Member on the council’s Communities Committee and is leading the campaign on the council against the charge – also know as a ‘bin tax’. He said:
“It’s alarming that the council is anticipating that only a fraction of the district’s 111,000 households will pay this new bin charge.
If only 22,000 have paid the charge so far, then what is happening to the green waste belonging to the other 89,000 households in the district?
The concerns that local people expressed to the council in last year’s sham consultation is that households feel they now have no alternative but to put their green waste into their black bins or heap yet more pressure onto dangerously congested Sort It centres across the district if they want to avoid this tax.
Green waste will still be produced and so all this bin tax does is discourage good recycling behaviour, which the council and local residents have supported in recent years.”