Garden Waste

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.

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

• Annual subscriptions

  Subcriptions to the half year collection service opened in August 2024. The annual service will re-open in March 2025.

   

  If you have already signed up for an annual subscription, we will collect your garden waste every two weeks between 04 March 2024 and 29 November 2024.

   

  You will be able to book winter garden waste collections as you need them between 02 December 2024 and 28 February 2025. 

   

Sign up for garden waste collections

Collection Day Checker

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

Leaf and Windfall Fruit Collection

The Vale of Glamorgan Council has introduced a free service for collections of leaves and fruit that have fallen on public land.  

From Wednesday 16 October until Friday 06 December, residents can book a free collection for leaves and fruit that have fallen outside their property online.

The collections will run until 13 December 2024. 

Residents who already have a paid garden waste subscription can place leaves and windfall fruit in their garden waste bag on their usual collection day until 29 November, and use the book and collect winter service between 02 December and 28 February.

Book a leaf and windfall fruit collection

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