Collections differ across the areas because waste used to be collected by three different councils, now replaced by Westmorland and Furness.
The new garden waste fee, which stands at £51 in Barrow, will be finalised as part of next year’s budget, reports the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
During the meeting, councillor Giles Archibald, cabinet member for environmental services, said that changes to waste services represented a “very important beginning” and though costly, would improve “efficiency and sustainability”.
“It’s these things that we do [that] are so important to people,” he said.
He added the changes were “important on the basis of equity”.
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