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Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
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Garden Waste

 

Subscriptions for the 2024/2025 garden waste collection service have now closed. Information about the 2025/2026 service, beginning in March 2025 will be available soon.

 

Please read the Terms and Conditions before signing up for a garden waste collection subscription.

 

 

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.

 

March - November

Fortnighty collections

If you have already signed up for an annual subscription, we will collect your garden waste every two weeks between 4 March 2024 and 29 November 2024.

 

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

 

After your last fortnightly collection you will be able to book a winter collection between 02 December and 28 February.

 

December - February

Book and Collect

Annual and half year subscribers will recieve their last scheduled fortnightly garden waste collections for 2024/25 between 18 and 29 November 2024.

 

From 18 November 2024 subscribers will be able to book a collection through the winter book and collect service between 02 December 2024 and 28 February 2025.

 

Book a garden waste collection

 

 

Check if collections in your area are currently delayed.

 

Collection Day Checker

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


 

What to put in your garden waste bag

Green-bag
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