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Brown Bin
What do you need to know?
Households that want to have the brown bin emptied must purchase a garden waste permit for each brown bin.
Purchase your garden waste permit
Brown bins will be collected every four weeks as per your bin collection calendar. Bins should be placed out the night before collection day, however in some town centre areas bins may require to be placed out on the day of collection
Collections will take place between 5.45am - 10.00pm (Mon-Thur), 5.45am - 9.00pm (Fri).
Brown bins are not collected during the winter months of December, January, and February unless you request this. You can do this (1 uplift per month) using our Brown Bin Request Portal. Please note that the option to request winter uplifts only open around mid-November each year.
What goes in my brown bin?
- Bark
- Branches and twigs
- Flowers and plants
- Grass cutting
- Hedge trimmings
- Leaves
- Shrub prunings
- Weeds and dead plants
(alternative options have been provided for these items)
- Animal faeces (non-recyclable bin)
- Blocks of wood (typically accepted as 'Wood Waste' at Recycling Centres)
- Bricks or stones (typically accepted as 'Rubble' at Recycling Centres)
- Garden furniture (donation to charity or Recycling Centres for reuse, recycling or disposal)
- Hosepipes (donation to charity or Recycling Centres for reuse, recycling or disposal)
- Large quantities of soil (typically accepted as 'Garden Waste' at Recycling Centres)
- Large rootballs (typically accepted as 'Garden Waste' at Recycling Centres)
- Plant pots and trays (non-recyclable bin)
- plastic bags (non-recyclable bin)
- Rubble (typically accepted as 'Rubble' at Recycling Centres)
- Turfs of grass (typically accepted as 'Garden' Recycling Centres)
If any of the above materials are placed in your brown bin it may not be emptied and it may not be possible to compost the green waste at the composting plant.
