I do not own a car but instead cycle or take the bus. This weekend I did my annual spring gardening where I cut the hedge, cut the grass and pull out weeds, seeing we have had a warm and rainy spring there were a lot of weeds so it produced 7 bags of the stuff which I neatly placed outside for collection this morning only to discover that Richmond upon Thames council does NOT take garden waste...
A quick call to Richmond upon Thames council revealed to me that I have 2 options.
1. register as a volume garden waste person, buy special bags or a huge green container and have it collected in a month from now.
2. somehow cycle with 7 huge bin bags to my nearest recycle center, a whopping 40 min cycle ride away.
I asked the guy on the phone what other options I might have but there were none, very 'green' thinking Richmond council.
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