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is it okay to dispose of grass cuttings on common green area?

  • 19-04-2018 2:19pm
    #1
    Bellerstring
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    Is it okay to drop your lawn trimmings on a common green area or should you ensure you put them in your brown bin?
    It's just that my brown bin gets almost full with every cut at this time of year, and I've seen other guys in housing estate scattering their grass on the green.
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  • #2
    Lumen
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    I've don't think it matters as long as everyone agrees! But they won't, and whoever manages the common area might object.

    Can the common area absorb everyone's grass?

    Tragedy of the commons!


  • #3
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    Got annual flyer from my residents association last year with price etc.
    Also included was the fact that disposing of green waste in common areas was considered littering and Garda would impose fines of up to €2000 for it.
    Never heard of anyone being done for it though.


  • #4
    dvdman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭dvdman1


    Its Illegal


  • #5
    magicbastarder
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    can you get a mulcher attachment for your lawnmower?


  • #6
    Bellerstring
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    hmm...a mulcher wouldn't be worth it for the size of my front and back gardens.
    The green at the front of my house is pretty large (about 4 acres) and is maintained by the council.
    With the proposed increase in prices for bin lifts, I feel a bit stupid filling it up with grass when it would hardly be noticed mixed in on the green.
    But, I would also feel very self conscious throwing it on green if my neighbours were binning theirs!!:(


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  • #7
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,106 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Bellerstring wrote: »
    hmm...a mulcher wouldn't be worth it for the size of my front and back gardens.
    My last place had less than 50sqm of grass and I used a mulching mower. It was great apart from the limitation that I couldn't mow when it was wet.


  • #8
    smacl
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    Would you consider composting it? I've always done that with mine, but there'd be enough other stuff going in to get a decent mix. Compost then gets distributed between the trees and beds as a feed a few times per year. Possibly a bit weird, but I like to keep waste generated by the garden in the garden.


  • #9
    Floody Boreland
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭Floody Boreland


    smacl wrote: »
    Would you consider composting it? I've always done that with mine, but there'd be enough other stuff going in to get a decent mix. Compost then gets distributed between the trees and beds as a feed a few times per year. Possibly a bit weird, but I like to keep waste generated by the garden in the garden.

    That is in no way weird. To dispose of it any other way is perhaps weird.


  • #10
    AlanG
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    Bellerstring wrote: »
    Is it okay to drop your lawn trimmings on a common green area or should you ensure you put them in your brown bin?
    It's just that my brown bin gets almost full with every cut at this time of year, and I've seen other guys in housing estate scattering their grass on the green.

    I would consider it really inconsiderate and report it if it happened on our local green. Too much grass cuttings makes the green unusable for many activities. In my area however many people do extra maintenance on the green and arrange disposal of the waste themselves so that the green is kept to a higher standard than if it was up to the council.


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    A good friend is a litter warden. Dumping grass clippings in a public area is illegal dumping.


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  • #12
    magicbastarder
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    Bellerstring wrote: »
    hmm...a mulcher wouldn't be worth it for the size of my front and back gardens.
    it can be as simple as this - just directs the clippings back down onto the lawn:

    https://www.bosch-garden.com/gb/en/garden-tools/accessories/multimulch-mulching-accessory-200741-6091.jsp


  • #13
    homer911
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    I have a large compost heap and have never used a brown bin. However there seems to be a wind vortex in my front garden which results in every leaf in the neighbourhood (from the trees in the kerb) ending up on my driveway in the autumn - this gets relocated to a copse of trees 50m away to join the rest of the leaves - if I was to compost all this I'd need a bigger garden


  • #14
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,106 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    homer911 wrote: »
    I have a large compost heap and have never used a brown bin. However there seems to be a wind vortex in my front garden which results in every leaf in the neighbourhood (from the trees in the kerb) ending up on my driveway in the autumn - this gets relocated to a copse of trees 50m away to join the rest of the leaves - if I was to compost all this I'd need a bigger garden
    Leaf mulch is amazing stuff for the soil. I have an electric leaf blower with a shredding function and the mulch it produces is top class, really helps the soil. When I can be bothered. :rolleyes:


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