If your bin is too heavy to safely lift onto the refuse collection vehicle without causing damage, it will not be collected. Please lighten the bin before your next collection day.
Yes please
- flowers and plants
- grass cuttings
- hedge clippings
- leaves
- twigs and small branches (no more than 3cm thick)
- windfall fruit
Please put these into your bin loose. Do not use any plastic bags.
No thanks
- branches over 3cm thick
- food waste, including fruit and vegetable peelings
- Giant hogweed
- Himalyan Balsam
- Japanese knotweed
- pet bedding, pet waste or cat litter
- plastic of any kind, including compostable and biodegradable plastics
- ragwort
- rubble
- soil or compost
Find out what to do with things that cannot go in your brown bin in our A to Z of reusing, recycling and waste disposal.
If you need a garden waste collection and do not have access to a brown bin, please view guidance on booking a collection and the terms and conditions of collections.
