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Garden Waste

If you’d like us to collect garden waste from your home, you can sign up for a garden waste collection subscription. Scheduled garden waste collections run between March and November. If you need a garden waste collection during the winter months, you can request one between December and February.

 

 

If you’d prefer not to subscribe to our garden waste collection service, you can still take your garden waste to your local household waste recycling centre for free or compost it at home.

 

Annual subscriptions

Annual garden waste collection subscriptions are now open for 2024/25. 

 

If you sign up for an annual subscription, we will collect your garden waste every two weeks between March 2024 and 29 November 2024.

 

You will be able to book winter garden waste collections as you need them between 2 December 2024 and 28 February 2025.

 

Annual garden waste collection subscriptions starting in March cost:

  • £36 for up to 8 bags per fortnight

  • £54 for more than 8 bags per fortnight

 

  • Half-year subscriptions

    From August 2024 you will be able to sign up for a half-year garden waste collection subscription.

     

    If you sign up for a half-year subscription, we will collect your garden waste every two weeks between 5 August 2024 and 29 November 2024.

     

    You will be able to book winter garden waste collections as you need them between 2 December 2024 and 28 February 2025.

     

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

    • £18 for up to 8 bags per fortnight

    • £27 for more than 8 bags per fortnight

 

 

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 2024/25 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

 

 

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What to put in your garden waste bag

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TickYes 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