Household Waste - Garden Waste
Cardboard and Garden Waste Collections
Please Note - There is a charge for the
collection of your garden waste. Please see below for
Current prices from 1st April
2008.
Cardboard can be collected on its own free of charge.
Please note, this includes an important notice about materials
that we cannot take because they can contaminate the load.
What are the cardboard and garden waste
collections?
Cardboard and garden waste is collected every fortnight to be
made into compost.
Garden waste is collected by paying for our wheeled bin service
or by purchasing individual paper sacks that are biodegradable and
suitable for composting.
If you just wish to put cardboard out on its own free of charge,
please pack it flat and put it inside a cardboard box or tie with
string. Please do not use plastic carrier bags.
Please note, the cardboard and garden waste collections have
been designed to collect the materials that you would not normally
compost at home. Please try and compost as much as you can at
home. To find out more about home composting, go to
Home Composting.
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The materials we collect
Garden Waste |
| Flower and plant waste |
| Grass cuttings |
| Branches |
| Leaves and bark |
| Hedge prunings |
Cardboard |
| Brown cardboard packaging |
| Brown paper (please remove all staples, tape etc.) |
| Food packaging e.g. cereal boxes, pizza boxes, egg
boxes |
We DO NOT collect the following:
- NO food waste
- NO Japanese Knotweed
- NO large branches or logs
- NO plastic
- NO drinks cartons
Please note that it is important to keep any type of plastic out
of the loads as they do not rot down and cannot be composted:
- Plastic film (particularly from boxes that contain both
cardboard and plastic such as plastic windows on cake boxes)
- Plastic bags
- Cardboard drinks cartons (these cannot be composted because
they contain a mixture of cardboard and plastic film which does not
break down in the composting process)
- Plastic described as 'biodegradable' or 'compostable' (the
Council cannot compost these contrary to what the labels might
say)
Please follow these guidelines to make sure that the loads do
not become contaminated:
- When you put any material out for collection, please make sure
that you remove any plastic including plastic windows, handles,
sticky tape or other attachments
- Make sure that you don't put cardbord out in a plastic
bag. Tie it with string or pack it into a cardboard box
- Please also make sure that you don't put any drinks cartons
in. These can be taken to Pixash Lane Recycling Centre in
Keynsham where they can be recycled (other recycling banks for
recycling drinks cartons are due to be installed in the next few
weeks at various locations across Bath and North East
Somerset)
- Make sure that you don't put in any plastic material even if it
claims to be biodegradable or compostable
- If in doubt, leave it out
For further information please go to
Cardboard and Garden Waste Contamination Notice.
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When and how to put your cardboard and
garden waste out.
To find out your collection day
Every year we deliver a leaflet that includes a calendar to help
you remember your collection days. To find out which day and
week your collections are, or to request a calendar, please contact
Council Connect on 01225 39 40 41 or email councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk
. Alternatively go to
Collection Days.
Putting your cardboard and garden waste out
Please make sure your cardboard and garden waste is put out by
7am on the day of collection. It needs to be at the front
boundary of your property so that it is easily visible and
accessible to make it easy for the crews to locate.
Garden Waste
Garden waste will only be collected from the Council's wheeled
bins or paper sacks. Cardboard can be mixed in with the garden
waste or put out separately.
Cardboard
Pack the cardboard flat and put inside a cardboard box or tie with
string. Please do not put out in plastic
bags as these cannot be composted. Please make sure
your cardboard is clearly visible.
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Garden waste containers
There are a choice of containers for your
garden waste as follows:
Container |
Size |
Cost |
| Large wheeled bin |
240 Litre (H: 107cm x W: 58cm x 73cm) |
£22.40 per year (there is a one off £2.50 delivery charge
for new bins) |
| Small wheeled bin |
140 Litre (H: 106cm x W: 49cm x 55cm) |
£22.40 per year (there is a one off £2.50 delivery
charge for new bins) |
| Paper Sacks |
80 Litre capacity (H: 101cm x W: 63cm) |
£1 per sack |
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How to order a container
Telephone
You can order the wheeled bin service or paper sacks (minimum
order of 20) by credit or debit card payment. Please contact
Council Connect on 01225 39 40 41 (councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk).
Please note, credit cards incur an additional surcharge of
2.97%
In Person
Town |
Wheeled bin orders and paper sacks |
Paper sacks only |
| Bath |
The Guildhall
Trimbridge House
Lewis House |
Bath Recycling Centre at Midland Road |
| Keynsham |
Council Connect, Riverside, Keynsham |
Keynsham Recycling Centre at Pixash Lane |
| Norton Radstock |
Council Connect at The Hollies |
Old Welton Recycling Centre |
There are also local outlets throughout Bath and North East
Somerset where you can purchase paper sacks directly. For further
information go to
Paper Sack Outlets.
For more information about the cardboard and garden waste
collections please contact Council Connect on 01225 39 40 41 or
email councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk
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