Garden waste should not be placed in general rubbish or recycling bins or sacks.

Ways you can manage your garden waste:

• Check out our ideas for managing garden waste at home
• You can no longer purchase single use green sacks - please sign up to our new garden waste collection service
• Take green waste for composting at a household recycling centre

Compost at home

Composting at home is the best way to deal with garden waste. It is the most environmentally friendly and carbon neutral option for processing your garden waste. It will:

• Save space in your black bin
• Save you money on green garden sacks or trips to the recycling centre
• Let you produce your own nutrient rich compost for your garden

There are options to suit the scale of your garden or the amount of garden waste you produce.

• You can compost both garden waste and some food waste such as fruit and vegetable peelings
• Specialist compost bins are available for composting other types of food waste

You can purchase compost bins at getcomposting.com.

Find out more about how to get started with composting at RecycleNow, including what you can compost.

Compost at recycling centres

There are composting facilities for garden waste at all our household recycling centres.

Compost purchase at recycling centres

You can buy the soil improver/compost made from garden waste at our household recycling centres. The soil improver costs £3 a bag. Payment must be made by card. Cash cannot be accepted at any sites. You will need to pre-book in order to visit the recycling centres.

Garden waste collections - green sacks

From 30 March 2026, this service will be replaced by bins or reusable sacks so that we can compost your garden waste.

You will not be able to buy the single use green sacks from 1 March 2026. The last collection of these sacks will be made on 27 March 2026, and no refunds will be provided for unused sacks.
Find out about the new subscription-based garden waste collection service.