Bath & North East Somerset Council - Household Waste - Garden Waste

Household Waste - Garden Waste

What are the garden waste collections?

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.

Please note, the 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.
 

The materials we collect

Garden Waste
Flower and plant waste
Grass cuttings
Branches
Leaves and bark
Hedge prunings

We DO NOT collect the following:
  • NO food waste (but you can recycle this in your black bin food waste recycling collection)
  • NO Japanese Knotweed
  • NO large branches or logs
  • NO plastic
  • NO cardboard (but you can recycle this in your blue bag collection)

For further information please go to Garden Waste Contamination Notice.

 

When and how to put your garden waste out

To find out your collection day: Your recycling, rubbish and composting (garden waste) are all collected on the same day but please note that your composting collection is every alternate week. To find out your collection day and week, please go to www.bathnes.gov.uk/myhouse.

Every year we deliver a leaflet that includes a calendar to help you remember your collection day and week. You can download a copy from the Related Documents section on this page or request a copy from Council Connect  01225 39 40 41 councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk.

 

Putting your garden waste out
Please make sure your 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. 

Garden waste containers

 

Container Size Cost
Large wheeled bin 240 Litre (H: 107cm x W: 58cm x 73cm) Please see; Garden Waste - staggered charges
Small wheeled bin 140 Litre (H: 106cm x W: 49cm x 55cm) Please see; Garden Waste - staggered charges
Paper Sacks 80 Litre capacity (H: 101cm x W: 63cm) £1.50 per sack

 

How to order a container

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 Council Connect at The Guildhall
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 buy paper sacks. For further information go to Paper Sack Outlets.

For more information about the garden waste collections please contact Council Connect on 01225 39 40 41 or email councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk

 

Contact Details for this page:
Team:
Waste Services
Address:
Keynsham Town Hall, Temple Street, Keynsham, BS31 1ED
Phone:
01225 39 40 41
Fax:
01225 477809
Minicom:
01225 447309
Author:
Waste Services
 
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