You can put these items in your bin:
- Grass cuttings
- Plants and weeds - with soil shaken off roots
- Leaves
- Hedge clippings
- Twigs and small branches
- Trimmed branches (no thicker than 3 inches/8 cm).
- Cut flowers
- Windfall fruit.
Your garden waste should put in the brown bin loose, not bagged or wrapped. The garden waste collected is sent to be composted.
You cannot put these items in the brown bin:
- Soil and turf
- Invasive weeds like Japanese Knotweed, Ragwort, Giant Hogweed, Himalayan Balsam, Rhododendron and Hemlock.
- Wood and timber
- Animal waste and bedding
- Bricks, rubble, garden stone, rocks or pebbles
- Garden tools and equipment, plant pots, ornaments
- Plastic of any kind
- Household waste
- Food waste: The garden waste we collect is sent to be composted outdoors and should not contain any food waste. This is because when food waste is collected by a Council or Waste Management Company it falls within specific legal requirements under the animal by-products regulations which dictates how this waste must be dealt with. The regulations were introduced in 2003 to ensure that all meat and other products of animal origin are dealt with to ensure the environment and human health is protected.
Brown bins must be out for collection by 7am on collection day. Place your bin at the edge of your property (where it joins the road) with the handle and sticker facing the road.
Brown bins are collected on the same day as recycling. Times for collections may vary.