South Lanarkshire Council will introduce a charge to uplift garden waste.
Councillors at the Executive Committee meeting yesterday , approved the plans which will mean residents will have to pay £45 per year to have their garden waste uplifted.
There was no statutory requirement to provide residents with a garden waste collection service, the council allowed residents who had been provided with a burgundy bin to deposit unbagged, compostable garden waste free of charge.Currently in Scotland, six councils do not provide a kerbside garden waste collection service for residents, 21 councils operate a chargeable garden waste permit scheme and five councils, including South Lanarkshire, provide the service free of charge.
The council will now follow suit and like the 21 other local authorities in Scotland, will implement a charge to recover some of the costs associated with providing the service. Around 110,000 households in South Lanarkshire have been provided with a burgundy bin to present which includes food and garden waste. Residents in flatted properties with no gardens have communal ‘food only’ burgundy bins and around 5000 rural properties, mainly in Clydesdale, were not provided with a burgundy bin and were unable to present food or garden waste separately at the kerbside.
The new plans will mean that residents who wish to have garden waste uplifted will pay £45 per year for their burgundy bin to be collected every two weeks in the financial year, this excludes a two-week period over Christmas and New Year.Unlike the current food and garden waste collection service, the permit scheme would be available to residents in rural Clydesdale. The cost of the permit would include the cost of providing the burgundy bin as well as a food waste caddy.
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