Find out everything you need to know about our garden waste collection service
You can sign up to have your garden waste collected from your home every two weeks.
The benefits of this are:
We will give you a 240 litre brown bin for your garden waste. If you have a lot of garden waste, you can subscribe for up to three brown bins. There is a fee for each bin you have.
To use this service you must have room to store your brown bin. You cannot keep it on a public footpath or road.
We will collect your garden waste every two weeks on the same day of the week as your current collections. But, it will be on the alternate week to non-recyclable waste.
If we collect your non-recyclable waste weekly we will tell you when your collection will be.
If we can't collect your garden waste on the normal day we will try and collect it within 48 hours.
There is a break each year for one month over Christmas and New Year. This year the last scheduled collections will be made on Friday 15 December and will resume on Monday 15 January 2024.
It's important you don't put anything in your brown bin that we can't use. We will collect:
Anything else will contaminate your bin and we won't empty it. You must remove any wrong items before your next collection. If you keep contaminating your bin we will take it away. You will not get a refund for any remaining collections.
We won't collect commercial waste. We won't collect garden waste that is not in your brown bin.
There is a charge for every bin you have of:
Direct Debit option coming soon
Your subscription will start from the date of your first collection and will last for 12 months.
After you have signed up we will:
The subscription period starts from the date of the first collection. It then rolls for 12 months from that date when you renew.