The council will be providing fortnightly collections of garden waste from March until early December. The collection service is for grass cuttings, hedge clippings, leaves, flowers, weeds and other green garden waste.
This service has been developed to make it easy for residents to recycle their green garden waste. It gives you the opportunity to have your garden waste collected rather than filling your car and taking it to the household waste recycling centre. The service can also take items which may not compost easily at home, such as large amounts of grass cuttings, hedge clippings and tree trimmings.
The green garden material is composted locally to produce Pro-Grow, a high quality organic soil conditioner. Pro-Grow is available for residents to buy at the Household Waste Recycling Centres in Hampshire.
How can I sign up?
Or call our contact centre on 01256 844844 - please have your address, postcode and
credit/debit card details ready.
Applications will be processed as quickly as possible and your sack(s) will be delivered before the service commences in March. You will be notified of your first collection date upon delivery of your sack(s).
Please note:
- The collection service is only available to households within the borough
- Online payments can only be taken from residents who live within the borough.
- If you are a returning customer who used the service last year, you can reuse your sack. However if the sack has been lost or damaged, you will need to order a replacement.
Questions and Answers
Why is the council operating a green garden waste collection service?
The council cannot recycle green garden waste that is put in the black rubbish bins. This is a waste of natural resources and means we send more rubbish for incineration than we need to. We all need to recycle more and waste less.
Collecting green garden waste separately means that we can recycle it.
How will the service work?
For a fee the council will provide customers with a large, hard-wearing, reusable sack for the collection of their green garden waste.
This year there will be an additional fortnightly collection so 19 fortnightly collections will be made during the peak growing season from March 2008 to early December 2008.
You can sign up at any time but to gain the full benefit please sign up before collections start on March 22 2008.
Sack(s) should be placed where you normally leave your wheeled bin for collection and be available from 7am on your collection day.
The annual fee, payable in advance, is £28.00 for the collection of one sack. Additional sacks can be collected for £10.00 each.
Customers will be responsible for their own sacks. Lost or damaged sacks can be replaced,
on request, at a cost of £10.00 each.
I am a returning customer. Do I need to pay if I still have my sack?
Yes. The annual fee covers the cost of the 19 fortnightly collections. If you are a returning customer and are able to reuse your sack(s) from the previous collection period, you will still need to pay the annual fee. This will be £28 for the first sacks and £10 for each additional sack. If you require a new sack(s), please inform us when you sign up.
What can be collected through the green garden waste collection service?
All grass cuttings, cut flowers, hedge clippings, weeds, leaves, twigs, prunings and fruit fall should be placed in your sack.
Please note that any kitchen waste, including vegetable, fruit and
salad peelings, is not green garden waste and should not be put in
the sacks.
What happens if I put the wrong waste in my sack?
If you put the wrong waste in the sack it will not be collected.
What happens to the waste?
All garden waste collected will be composted locally to produce Pro-Grow, a high quality organic soil conditioner.
Pro-Grow is available from the Household Waste Recycling Centres in Hampshire or can be delivered to your home. For more information, please see the special
offer below.
To find out more about the service click here for frequently asked questions or e-mail greenwaste@basingstoke.gov.uk