Panda Recycling is to start charging €3.80 for each compost bin lift.
A Meath County Councillor is calling for bins collections to be renationalised.
It follows after one of the largest waste collection companies in the State is introducing a special charge for households for putting food and garden waste into their compost bins.
The move by Panda Recycling has been described as a blow to efforts to encourage households to recycle.
Panda Recycling, whose parent group recently sold for €1bn, is one of the largest bin collection firms in the State with some 360,000 customers.
From May 8 next it will start charging €3.80 for each compost bin lift.
The Fine Gael Cllr Alan Tobin said that he has a bin account with Panda, he wasn't notified of the charges until he heard it on the news.
Cllr Tobin joined Eoin Beatty on Thursday's Kildare Today:
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