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With almost 75 per cent of councils now charging for garden waste collections, the importance of making services, costs and further information about local authority waste collections is increasing, but only 46 per cent of all sites tested provided a good or very good service.
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Instead, council websites should make charges ‘explicit on web pages’ along with clear information on collection cycles, how waste should be presented, what won’t be collected, who owns the bin and so on.’
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