Garden Waste

Half year subscriptions

Half year garden waste collection subscriptions are now open for 2025/26. 

If you sign up for a half year subscription, we will collect your garden waste every two weeks between 01 August 2025 and 28 November 2025.

You will be able to book winter garden waste collections as you need them between 01 December 2025 and 27 February 2026.

Half-year garden waste collection subscriptions starting in August cost:

• £20.50 for up to 8 bags per fortnight

• £29.50 for more than 8 bags per fortnight

• Annual subscriptions

  Subcriptions to the half year collection service opened in August 2025. The annual service will re-open in March 2026.

   

  If you have already signed up for an annual subscription, we will collect your garden waste every two weeks between 03 March 2025 and 28 November 2025.

   

  You will be able to book winter garden waste collections as you need them between 1 December 2025 and 27 February 2026. 

• What do I do if I move address while my garden waste subscription is active?

  If you move address during your garden waste subsciption period, please call 01446 700 111 to update your property details. 

   

  We will update your record, and your collections will continue from your new address.

Sign up for garden waste collections

Please read the Terms and Conditions before signing up for a garden waste collection subscription.

If you have previously subscribed to our garden waste service, please use your existing account to subscribe for 2025/26 collections. Do not create a new account.

Garden waste subscriptions are registered to individual accounts. If you want to pay for someone else's subscription, they must create an account in their own name. If you have any issues, please call: 01446 729566.

Sign up for garden waste collections

Winter Book and Collect Service

Current subscribers of the 2025/26 service will receive their last scheduled fortnightly garden waste collections between 17 and 29 November 2025.

From 17 November 2025/26 subscribers will be able to book a collection through the winter book and collect service which will run from 01 December 2025 to 27 February 2026.

Book a winter garden waste collection

Please write your house number or name on your garden waste bags to help our crews match them with your booking. Make sure it matches the property name or number used in your booking.

Collections will not be available between 22 December and 05 January 2025.

Collection Day Checker

Enter your postcode to check details of your next recycling and waste collections and set up email reminders.

What to put in your garden waste bag

Yes please

• Grass, leaves and most weeds
• Plants and flowers
• Shrub cuttings and hedge clippings
• Pet bedding used by non-meat-eating animals, such as hay, straw or wood shavings

No thank you

• Soil, stones or logs. Please take these items to your local Household Waste Recycling Centre
• Invasive weeds such as Japanese knotweed. Please arrange for a specialist contractor to collect this and dispose of it safely
• Any garden furniture, whether plastic or wooden. Please take these items to your local Household Waste Recycling Centre
• Animal or human faeces. Please put these items in your black bags
• Pet bedding used by meat-eating animals. Please put these items in your black bags