We can collect your garden waste once a fortnight for a charge.
We offer 2 different ways for you to store your garden waste for collection.
You can have a brown wheelie bin that you pay £45 for once a year. You will need to renew this when you have received a letter from us.
You can also buy compostable paper single-use sacks that you use as you need them.
Once you have signed up for the service, all you need to do is put your bin or paper sacks at the edge of your property by 7am on your collection day. Collections are every 2 weeks.
If you do not want to join the service, you can also take your garden waste (free of charge) to Hampshire County Council's Household waste recycling centres. In addition, you can compost some garden waste.
Check your bin collection day
To find out what day your bin is emptied, use our bin collection day finder.
Bin collection day finder
Renew your garden waste service
If you have received a letter from us, you can renew your garden waste recycling service for £45.
Renew your garden waste recycling service
What you can and can't recycle
Yes please
- Grass clippings
- Weeds
- Hedge trimmings
- Leaves
- Cut flowers
- Wind fallen fruit
- Prunings (no greater than 100mm / 4 inch diameter)
No thank you
- Turf
- Soil
- Food waste (including vegetable peelings)
- Concrete / building rubble
- Animal bedding / cat litter / dog poo
- Ashes
What happens to your garden waste
We take your garden waste to the composting centre near Basingstoke, where it is turned into the soil conditioner, Pro-Grow.
You can buy a variety of Pro-Grow products to use on your garden at Hampshire County Council Household waste recycling centres. For more information, visit the Pro-Grow website.