Home composting is greenest solution

All parties on the Borough Council agreed that it was not good value to spend an extra £700,000 to extend the green waste collections before other recycling measures could take at least half of the material out of the grey bins.

In the meantime - until resources can be released by changing to alternate weekly collections of grey and brown bins - the best answer for green garden waste is home composting.

The Council, through the government's WRAP body, can offer composters at reduced prices.