We compost almost all our garden waste. Almost. There's some stuff that decomposes too slowly to be of any use and for that we've used the 'green bag' scheme - £10 for 10 green bin bags which the council collects.

Is that being scrapped? We currently use perhaps 10 bags - £10-worth - a year so I'm extremely reluctant to have to sign up to a £60-a-year scheme (it's £60 after the Year One 'teaser rate' expires) - the cost equivalent of 60 bin bags!