Garden Waste Collections

a refuse worker drags two bins to the refuse lorry

New subscriptions for 2025-26

You can now sign up or renew your brown bin subscription ready for garden waste collections from 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026. 

You will receive 20 collections with a short break over the winter months.

 Charges

If you sign up before 31 March 2025, you can take advantage of our early bird offer, the first subscription costing just £25, with subscriptions for each additional bin costing £18.75. For early subscribers stickers will be posted out in early March. 

From 1 April the first subscription will cost £37 and £27.75 for each additional bin.  

How to sign up

Online:

Sign up or renew your subscription through a My Erewash account or as a guest.

Sign up with your My Erewash account  

Sign up as a guest 

By Telephone:

Call our Customer Services Team on 0115 907 2244.

In Person:

Pop into our Town Halls during opening hours.

Current subscriptions 2024-25

Current subscriptions will run until 31 March 2025. You can no longer sign up for subscriptions for this time.

For further information about the garden waste service, please see our Garden Waste Information page and Terms and Conditions page.

What to put in the brown bin

  • Grass cuttings

  • Plants and weeds - with soil shaken off roots

  • Hedge and shrub clippings

  • Leaves, twigs and small branches

  • Trimmed branches (no thicker than 3 inches/8 cm).

  • Cut flowers

  • Windfalls (fallen fruit such as apples)

All garden waste should put in the brown bin loose, not bagged or wrapped. The garden waste collected is sent to be composted.

What cannot go in 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

  • 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. 

  • Household waste

Brown bins must be out for collection by 7am on collection day and placed at the edge of the property where it joins the footpath or road, or at an agreed collection point. We cannot guarantee that collections will take place at the same time every fortnight. Brown bins are collected on the same day as recycling.

New and Replacement Brown Bins

New Brown Bin 240 litre: £39.00

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