Brown bin

Garden waste collection

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

Kerbside collections of garden waste start from Monday 10 March 2025.
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.

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 will empty your brown bin fortnightly:

The collection service costs £40 per bin.

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

this will continue.

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