[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Chris Cross

If this was France, the council members would have a good sized compost heap in their front gardens by now.

In Brittany you take your green waste to the tip yourself - then you can go back in April, or thereabouts, and collect as much compost as you want for free. Recyclables go into yellow single use bags which you then have to take to collection points in your neighbourhood.