Liverpool residents are being warned about a looming charge for green waste collections.
The city council is bringing in a controversial new charge for the collection of green waste bins in the city - a move agreed at a meeting of the full council earlier this month. The charge will be a £40 annual payment and will come in from April 18.
The council pointed out that today marks the start of the final fortnightly cycle where there will be no fee for green bin collections in Liverpool. The new fee-paying cycle begins on Monday, 18 April - at which point all green bin collections must be paid for.
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The council is hoping the controversial new charge will raise an estimated £1.7m a year, which it says will help protect frontline services. When the new scheme is introduced, only green bins registered with the council under the new chargeable service will be collected.
Residents will get a sticker which they can put on their bins, so that they are identifiable. People are now being urged to make their annual green waste collection payment on the council's website or by calling 0151233001 or visiting a One Stop Shop.
The council said that those paying the new fee before April 8 can expect their first collection to be on their normal scheduled collection day. If you pay the fee after 9th April 2022 your first collection could be up to 15 days later.
The new charge has proved deeply controversial and the council faced a barrage of criticism and questions on its social media pages over the weekend, with hundreds of comments and responses to their tweets about the new charge.
If a resident does not wish to not take part in the scheme, then the green bins will be removed at some point in the future, or alternatively they can be kept, in case the resident wants to opt in at a later stage.
