Garden waste collections
Join over 24,000 households who benefit from fortnightly garden waste collections
Bookings are now open to sign up for our 2025 Garden Waste Collection Service!
Join our service now and receive free collections until April 2025, when the scheme starts.
Also if you pay your subscription by Direct Debit by 31 March, you'll be automatically entered into a draw with a chance to receive your year’s subscription back.
Annual Garden Waste service fees (1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026):
- First bin and additional bins: £60.00
- First bin and additional bins concession: £50.00 for residents in receipt of Council Tax support or housing benefit
Our garden waste scheme explained
Our fortnightly garden waste collection service will help you:
🚗 Save fuel with fewer journeys to your local recycling centre
🐛 Avoid unwanted 'creepy crawlies' in your vehicle
Woman gesturing noNo more booking at the local recycling centre
⏰ Save time; simply fill up your green bin (with the brown lid) and place it out for collection on your collection day and we do the rest
What can you put in your garden waste bin?
✅ Grass cuttings
✅ Hedge and shrub clippings
✅ Cut flowers
✅ Leaves, twigs and bark
✅ Small plants and weeds
What you can’t put in your garden waste bin
❌ Food waste
❌ Animal waste
❌ Plastic bags, pots or trays
❌ Tree stumps
❌ Brick, rubble, soil and stones
❌ Large branches (over 10cm / 4” in diameter)
How does the service work?
When you subscribe to the service you will receive a 240 litre wheeled bin and will be able to view your collection dates online. You can purchase more than one bin.
For all garden waste bin(s) deliveries and removals – please allow 20 working days, although during busy periods this could be longer.
Your garden waste will be collected on a fortnightly basis, with the exception of the Christmas/New Year period.
Put your garden waste in your bin and leave it by the kerbside by 6.30am every fortnight, on your specified collection day. We cannot pick up bagged waste or side waste within this scheme and the bin lid must close.
Our terms and conditions have changed
Your garden waste subscription is now taken out on behalf of the property and not the homeowner. If you move house, you must leave the garden waste bin at the property. So customers moving to another property within the Borough will need to purchase a new subscription for the new address should they require one, unless there is already one in place from the previous homeowner.
Therefore if you are planning to move house you will need to carefully consider if you want to purchase a bin for your current property as the garden waste collection service is not transferable and is not refundable. See full Terms and Conditions.
For all garden waste bin(s) deliveries and removals – please allow 20 working days, although during busy period this could be longer.