You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

I love my compost bins, I just don't enjoy the emptying task but have learned a few tricks over the years that make it easier, more old lady sized! A few old planks for the edges to sit on means they don't embed themselves and the chicken netting still sits neatly to keep out opportunist meeces and their bigger cousins. Makes it easier to pull the bin off the contents once it has had a year to cook and then that heap can be easily harvested or just spread if I have positioned the bin in the right spot. And like you KM I find green bins a bit of a scam, they should be paying us for all that good stuff, not the other way round. We have one provided, but I only use it for grasses and at autumn pruning time when our many hydrangeas and roses would make short work of the three black bins I have around the place. And slowly but surely I have convinced one other resident to use them rather than stink up their council rubbish bins with green waste, the others are not quite so garden minded.

Still, it means I get all the pleasure of the results...