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[Bexiboo]

I don't know if your council runs a green bin service but mine does. I do have to pay £50 if I want it though however I was thinking if I can put in the stuff from the run and the chicken poop then it might be worth getting. I don't have a composter at the moment and I don't grow veggies (I tried 2 years on the trott but it was rubbish, everything got eaten by slugs and the only things which grew were the spuds and even they didn't really work the second year so I have given up) so I don't need compost really.

 

Does anyone here have a green council bin and can you put the poop in it? Also if you use hemcore can you put that in it.

 

Thanks for your help

[abwsco]

We have a green bin (although we don't have to pay for it) but can't put in pet waste but can put in wood shavings. Have you checked on your councils website for do and dont's as ours has a list.

 

Going OT but ALL our bins were microchipped when they arrived a few years ago- they told us it was so they could trace them if they got lost or stolen. As if so I pulled all the chips off!!

[BarbaraJ]

we have a brown garden waste wheelie bin. It ays we can put rabbit bedding in it so i presumed as chickens are veggie it was ok to put their bedding in so i did and its been taken few times now!

[Egluntyne]

Why not offer it to a local Allottment Association, or put it on Freecycle first.

 

It might save you the fifty quid if you can find a regular taker.

 

Otherwise, I'd go for it, as they do generate a heck a lot of "run fodder".

 

You could give them a ring and find out if they will take it. first.

[xScrunchee]

I have a green garden waste bin too and I rang the council to ask about the chicken run contents. They had no idea if it would be ok or not so they had to look into it and phoned me back saying that the bedding would not be suitable as it is too acidic or something.

 

Our council also do a cat litter collection apparently but the chicken waste cannot be collected with that neither

[owenofj]

I was wondering this too, and the list they put through our door for putting one tiny plastic bottle lid on top of green bin rubbish (damn children can't read, and I'm sure as hell not rootling through it to check ) said that rabbit/guinea pig bedding/hay can go in.... chickens aren't that different, in food consumption I mean. And it does say a big YES to anything compostable.

 

I think I'm gonna risk it. Our bins aren't tagged, but they did cost us £60 'delivery'.

 

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