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Garden waste - fortnightly collection

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Your bins

  • Standard: 240-litre black wheelie bin with a brown lid
  • Sack: Authorised compostable paper sack (2 per collection)

Standard

Sack

What goes in your garden waste bin

Yes please

What goes in your garden waste bin:

  • hedge cuttings
  • grass cuttings
  • twigs and small branches
  • plants
  • cut flowers
  • leaves
  • small amounts of home-grown fruit and vegetables

No thanks

We do not accept:

  • any non-organic waste
  • compostable bags/wrapping material
  • branches with a diameter of more than 15mm
  • logs and tree stumps
  • invasive weeds (e.g. Japanese Knotweed, Ragwort)
  • soil, bricks, rubble, stones, rocks
  • plastics, such as compost bags, plant pots and seed trays
  • ashes
  • animal faeces and bedding
  • any kind of paper cup

Most items that cannot be recycled using the kerbside collection service can be taken to a household recycling centre.

Wrong stuff in the wrong bin?

If there is any reason why we cannot collect some or all of your waste, we will leave a tag or sticker on the container. Find out what our tags and stickers mean.

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