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  Gary RK December 11, 2013 at 7:45pm

  One option is to bulk buy some wheelie bin bags/liners, fill them and leave for customer to dispose off...they will soon then realise the hassle, time and cost of disposing of waste.

  Some customer are so insulated from the realities of life, that it takes something like to wake them up...

  Where not included, we do charge per 1000l bags of waste
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  Stuart Land-Scape.co.uk December 11, 2013 at 7:55pm

  i was charging £12 8 years ago - time is money and it takes time and costs money to get rid of green waste, just email back and justify the charge, it's no big deal - as gary says, he can get rid of them himself if he wants to save some money :)
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  David Cox December 11, 2013 at 8:57pm

  Depending on whether its grass (easy to dispose of) of woody material - more arqward and time consuming, I charge either £10 or £20 although normally I use 80l bags - one free per visit and all further ones charged at £2
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  Steve London Stone December 11, 2013 at 10:27pm

  This madness really annoys me. It would be great to drive down to the council offices and deposit all the leaves outside the foyer. What gives them the right to just suspend a service that people pay for with their council taxes?
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  fraz December 11, 2013 at 10:50pm

  Luckily no one does any gardening bewteen 18th Nov and 14th March in East Cheshire and none of our trees drop their leaves!!
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  Paul McNulty December 11, 2013 at 10:53pm

  Are you talking the one-tonne bags? If so, £10 each is pretty reasonable.

  Domestic customers genuinely don't understand trade waste charges: they can go to the tip for free, and just don't see the costs we pay. I'd suggest supplying them with a receipt, showing the costs? I've just paid a month's invoices for waste (a month's wet leaves costs an awful lot) and would happily supply any customer with the receipt!
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  Luke brooks December 11, 2013 at 11:41pm

  I charge £10 per bag also and have done for some time, I justify this by saying I can charge £1 per bin liner filled when the customer supplies them. When they see how quickly u fill the roll of ten bags up and ask for more they soon realise how much fits in a ton bag and the price is justified
  Years ago one new client asked if they could dispose of the rubbish and save £40 off the invoice
  I took delight in ringing them every night to ask for my ton bags back after 5 nights he had messed up his jaguar and only emptied one bag
  Resulting in me charging him £40 to take away the remaining three as I made a special trip to take his waste away a second time
  People without vans or trailers soon realise waste is a justifiable commodity to be charged for its removal
  I was informed this week that Swindon council are buying garden waste wheelie bins and charging house holders around £35 to purchase one then £35 per annum to have them collected and emptied fortnightly
  Bit of a rip off I feel when there current system is free
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  Phil Voice December 12, 2013 at 6:43am

  Hi Fraz

  Also worth a look in the archives: http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/categories/waste-managem...

  Plenty of previous discussions on green waste costs there too.
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  fraz December 12, 2013 at 9:34am

  Cheers guys. Andy that's fine if you have room to store 6 bulk bags and a van/trailer that can fit them all on at once. I have a pick up and 6x4 trailer so 3 full bags is about max, but it's the time as well as the cost to drive to the tip and back that makes excess waste an unprofitable waste of time. The thing that really got me going with this customer is that I normally charge 40 quid for his maintenance visit but this time I charged him 20 for the labour, which was just tidying the leaves and bagging them and 20 quid for taking away the 2bulk bags of leaves!! He sent me an email saying he'd never been charged for taking waste away before which made me wonder how many gardeners he'd gone through in the past!
  Anyway, All my customers are on a 3 strikes and out rule - 3 moans about costs or unwarranted complaints and I leave them to find another mug to do their gardening! It's too stressful trying to deal with the ones who pick out little things that haven't been done rather than thank you for all the things you have done.
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  Ryan @RNWilliamsGardenServices December 12, 2013 at 10:27am

  Very rarely have I had a customer where I can leave waste on site, or left it there for them to dispose of it. So ultimately the customer has to cover your costs.