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Garden Waste

Annual garden waste collection subscriptions are now open for 2025/26 at 2024/25 prices.

 

If you’d like us to collect garden waste from your home, you can sign up for a garden waste collection subscription

 

If you already subscribe to the service, your subscription will not automatically renew for the 2025/26 service. Please subscribe again using your existing account if you wish to continue having your garden waste collected. 

 

 

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 2025/26.

  

If you sign 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 01 December 2025 and 27 February 2026. Collections will not be available for two weeks over the Christmas period. 

 

Residents who sign up before 10 March 2025 will be able to subscribe to our early bird offer from £36 per year, the same price as in 2024.   

 

The Council is currently reviewing all its charges for 2025/26 and prices for garden waste subscriptions may increase after 10 March 2025. 

 

Sign up now for: 

 

  • £36 for up to 8 bags per fortnight 
  • £54 for more than 8 bags per fortnight 

Don’t want to subscribe for a full year? You will have the option to subscribe to a half-year service from August. 

 

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. Please 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 

  

Book a winter garden waste collection

Subscribers of the 2024/25 service are able to book a collection through the winter book and collect service between 02 December 2024 and 28 February 2025:

 

Book a winter garden waste collection

 

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What to put in your garden waste bag

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Garden-waste

 

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