Garden waste collections will start on Monday 1st April to Saturday 14th December 2013

Each household can put out two Council authorised 120 litre reusable sacks or three 70 litre jute sacks for free (additional single use 70 litre biodegradable sacks can be purchased for £1 per sack, at libraries only).

FREE GARDEN WASTE SACKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM ALL BOROUGH LIBRARIES FROM MARCH 2012.

Missed Collections need to be reported by the following day. You can do this by completing an Online Missed Collection report. Our aim is to collect the missed waste within 2 days (not including Sundays). Please make sure your bags are left outside for collection.

The garden waste collection will start on Monday 1st April 2013 and will run until Saturday 14th December 2013. The collections are fortnightly on the same day that the green wheeled bins are collected. Residents can put out up to two Council authorised 120 litre reusable plastic sacks or three 70 litre jute sacks filled with garden waste.  Extra 70 litre single use biodegradable sacks may be purchased at £1 each.

The reusable sacks can be used for the following: Twigs, sticks, leaves, grass, hedge clippings, dead plants, weeds and branches up to 20cms or 8 inches in diameter.

Biodegradable single use sacks:These are 100% biodegradable and will break down during the composting process. Sacks must be stored in a cool dry place at all times. Please restrict the use of these sacks to grass cuttings, leaves, weeds, dead plants, small hedge trimmings and garden materials that will not tear the sacks.

The Council arranges for the garden waste to be turned into a soil conditioner and this is made available to residents free of charge when available from the Impound Park Way Reuse and Recycling Centre, SM3 9QH. Residents are allowed to take away up to four sacks of soil conditioner at a time. Residents should take own sacks and spade with them.  

Sacks must be left open and not tied or taped shut.

• Sacks must be visibly placed at the edge of your property before 6am and until 8.30pm on your bin collection day.
• Please do not put sacks on the public footpath where they may cause accidents
• It would help us if waste is put into the reusable and the single use sacks as near to the collection day as possible before it has time to decompose.
• The reusable sacks will be returned to their point of collection. Whilst every effort will be made to return your sacks to you, windy weather conditions may cause sacks to be blown around.

Garden waste can be taken to the Re-use and Recycling Centre, Kimpton Park Way, Sutton SM3 9QH (off Oldfields Road, A217).