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Grass clippings disposal

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  • 17-04-2021 9:59am
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    dazza161989
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Just wondering which bin grass clippings should be put put in.

    Recently moved house and no longer compost heap.

    Thanks


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    jellybear
    Registered Users Posts: 3,231 ✭✭✭jellybear


    Double check your bin provider's website, but most accept them in the brown bin :)


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    dazza161989
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭dazza161989


    jellybear wrote: »
    Double check your bin provider's website, but most accept them in the brown bin :)

    By drown bin do you mean the general waste bin. Our bins are black and blue!!

    Thanks


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    lucalux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭lucalux


    dazza161989 wrote: »
    By drown bin do you mean the general waste bin. Our bins are black and blue!!

    Thanks

    Black bin (general waste bin) if you don't have a brown bin

    Not in with the recycling anyway!


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    POBox19
    Registered Users Posts: 685 ✭✭✭POBox19


    Compost bin with food waste. Colour depends on location.
    Check with your local authority as they may have a facility where you can bring your clippings for composting along with other recycling. Probably cheaper too as grass is mostly water and would make your compost bin collection expensive.


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    lucalux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭lucalux


    POBox19 wrote: »
    Compost bin with food waste. Colour depends on location.
    Check with your local authority as they may have a facility where you can bring your clippings for composting along with other recycling. Probably cheaper too as grass is mostly water and would make your compost bin collection expensive.

    Good point on bringing to a local authority if they have that option available, but OP doesn't have a compost bin.
    Lots of people don't have this option yet. Just general waste and recycling bins here for us too


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    dazza161989
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭dazza161989


    POBox19 wrote: »
    Compost bin with food waste. Colour depends on location.
    Check with your local authority as they may have a facility where you can bring your clippings for composting along with other recycling. Probably cheaper too as grass is mostly water and would make your compost bin collection expensive.

    My compost bin collection is free as part of bins package so happy days.

    Thanks for the help


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    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    OP, what kind of weight and / or volume are you talking here ?


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    athlone573
    Registered Users Posts: 724 ✭✭✭athlone573


    Options for composting

    Brown bins: In line with EU regulations, the Government supplies brown bins for composting to almost every household in Ireland. (The only exceptions are places so small or remote that it would not be practicable to collect brown bins separately from other bins.)
    Civic amenity centres: You can also bring organic waste to civic amenity centres to be composted. For details, contact your local authority.
    Home composting: You can have a compost heap in your garden or you can make or buy a compost container. You can buy containers from garden centres or hardware shops. Some local authorities offer them for sale at reduced rates.


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    Hocus Focus
    Registered Users Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    athlone573 wrote: »
    Options for composting

    Brown bins: In line with EU regulations, the Government supplies brown bins for composting to almost every household in Ireland. (The only exceptions are places so small or remote that it would not be practicable to collect brown bins separately from other bins.)
    Civic amenity centres: You can also bring organic waste to civic amenity centres to be composted. For details, contact your local authority.
    Home composting: You can have a compost heap in your garden or you can make or buy a compost container. You can buy containers from garden centres or hardware shops. Some local authorities offer them for sale at reduced rates.
    Also, if you have a hedge, buy a small shredder (Lidl/Aldi occasionally), and mix shredded hedge clippings with your grass cuttings to make a compost.


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    NuttyMcNutty
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭NuttyMcNutty


    If it's only grass clippings can you not just drop it around the base of a tree?, if there are any beside you.


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    v0ldeMort
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭v0ldeMort


    NuttyMcNutty wrote: »
    If it's only grass clippings can you not just drop it around the base of a tree?, if there are any beside you.

    animals that eat grass clippings can die (horses etc) so please do not take the advice above.
    dump them properly.
    people seem to think they are 'feeding' animals by dumping, instead they can be causing them serious harm.


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    NuttyMcNutty
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭NuttyMcNutty


    dazza161989 wrote: »
    My compost bin collection is free as part of bins package so happy days.

    Thanks for the help

    It's not free, its just built into the price of the other bins. I bet you couldn't just have a compost bin;)


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    NuttyMcNutty
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭NuttyMcNutty


    I wasn't talking about feeding animals, no horses roaming around my area either


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Take your clippings and scatter them at the base of a hedge if you have one, or across the front garden as let's face it no one actually walks on that one :) They'll have vanished into the lawn in a few days


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    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,926 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    v0ldeMort wrote: »
    animals that eat grass clippings can die (horses etc) so please do not take the advice above.
    dump them properly.
    people seem to think they are 'feeding' animals by dumping, instead they can be causing them serious harm.

    Who the hell keeps a horse in their garden !


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    listermint wrote: »
    Who the hell keeps a horse in their garden !

    Does that really need asking or answering? :eek:


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    hirondelle
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭hirondelle


    To clarify the brown bin issue, anyone living in a town or village of 500 people or more, is entitled to a brown bin from their waste contractor. Yes, there is a charge for it, depending on the operator- but remember, all awaste that goes into the black/residual/rubbish bin incurs a landfill levy based on weight (the contracotr pays this), so it is can be cost neutral or better to use a brown bin.

    Not all contractors make their customers aware of this entitlement, if that is the case, report the issue to www.nwcpo.ie (Waste Collection Permit office) and get a contractor who will provide one.


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    v0ldeMort
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭v0ldeMort


    NuttyMcNutty wrote: »
    I wasn't talking about feeding animals, no horses roaming around my area either

    but you know for sure that the OP doesn't either, or anyone reading your advice?


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    listermint
    Registered Users Posts: 33,926 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    v0ldeMort wrote: »
    but you know for sure that the OP doesn't either, or anyone reading your advice?

    Keep banging the drum ....


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    NuttyMcNutty
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭NuttyMcNutty


    v0ldeMort wrote: »
    but you know for sure that the OP doesn't either, or anyone reading your advice?

    I assume he/she would use common sense


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    v0ldeMort
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭v0ldeMort


    NuttyMcNutty wrote: »
    I assume he/she would use common sense

    Hopefully, but you did advise to dump under a tree "nearby" - which could be anywhere.
    My own horse got colic and had to be pts thanks to a local who thought they were doing him a favour dumping grass clippings into his field, so forgive me if I have a reason for asking people not to do the same.


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    Jim_Hodge
    Registered Users Posts: 10,683 ✭✭✭✭Jim_Hodge


    A mulching lawnmower is also an option.


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    Hocus Focus
    Registered Users Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    listermint wrote: »
    Who the hell keeps a horse in their garden !
    You obviously haven't been to the northwestern suburbs of Dublin!
    (it's ok, I'm originally from Finglas:) )


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    SouthWesterly
    Registered Users Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭SouthWesterly


    Have you a hedge? A nice mulch under it.


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    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,421 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Too much grass clippings under a hedge (or anywhere else) creates a nasty slimy area of black mank.


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    Hocus Focus
    Registered Users Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    looksee wrote: »
    Too much grass clippings under a hedge (or anywhere else) creates a nasty slimy area of black mank.
    Shred some hedge clippings, brown cardboard/paper and mix it with the grass clippings first. The woody stuff absorbs the nitrogen fron the green stuff and it breaks down into more acceptable compost.
    I pile up my cuttings out of sight and when it's all well rotted, the following year, it can be put into the base of a raised bed to fill it out so that only the top layers need be compost/topsoil.


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