Brown bin

Garden waste collection

2025 service

To pay for your 2025 brown bin service by direct debit you must sign up before 29 November 2024.

Pay for brown bin service by direct debit

  • Kerbside collections of garden waste in 2025 start from Monday 10 March.
  • The cost of the service in 2025 will be £42 per bin.
  • If you prefer to pay online the payment portal for the 2025 service will open from 14 January 2025.

Sign up for 2024 service closed

  • The sign up period for kerbside collections of garden waste closed on 12 September.
  • You can no longer sign up and pay for brown bin collections in 2024.
  • Kerbside collections in 2024 stop between Monday 4 November and Friday 15 November.
  • Your last collection will depend on where your property lies within the collection cycle.
  • Collection calendar.

If you signed up and paid for the service on or before 12 September, we empty your brown bin fortnightly:

  • until 15 November 2024
  • if it correctly displays a 2024 collection sticker.

The collection service costs £40 per bin.

Collection dates

There are no changes to garden waste collection days from last year. If your brown bin was previously emptied on:

  • the same day as your grey bin,
  • or (in rural areas) the day after your grey bin,

this will continue.

Buy the compost produced from our garden waste

Your garden waste is taken to a local facility for composting. The resulting soil improver is available from Caledonian Horticulture.

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