Recycling flowers (brown bin question)

[TheArtfulDogger]

I'm confused

With the new brown bin policy, if you can't put garden waste into your food caddy, and you don't have a brown bin then where do you put cut flowers after they die ?

Can anyone help

[edcam]

If you don't have a brown bin you're supposed to buy the brown sacks from the council. I know, incredibly big backward step there from Southwark council. Most people will just put everything in the green bins, therefore more landfill.

[Jules-and-Boo]

do you know someone with a compost heap?

[TheArtfulDogger]

edcam Wrote:

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> If you don't have a brown bin you're supposed to

> buy the brown sacks from the council. I know,

> incredibly big backward step there from Southwark

> council. Most people will just put everything in

> the green bins, therefore more landfill.

It's not worth a whole sack just for a bunch of flowers, compost heap is a good option if you can but still the simple question of where to put them if you don't have a brown bin

It's going to interesting at Christmas when food caddies will all be sprouting Christmas trees too

[seenbeen]

Put it in someone else's brown bin- most people won't mind- not much garden stuff this time of year now

[Countrlass22]

Err yes they will that's stealing that someone has paid for brown bin.

Better option pay brown bin for year.

[hammerman]

I would put them in your food caddy. I'm sure they will disintegrate quicker than food bones etc. so don't feel guilty about an old bunch of flowers.

Putting them into a neighbours bin could be an option if you ask?

Then again, a woman was seen pulling up in her car, opening the boot and dumping loads of garden waste into a brown bin local to me so it does happen (dumping of stuff into other people's bins).

[nxjen]

I seem to remember seeing something on a leaflet put through the door by the recycling team that it was OK to put cut flowers in the kerbside food caddy. Of course, the leaflet has long since gone in the blue recycling bin.