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Online: Green Waste Collections
Each fortnight, on your recycling collection day residents can put out brown bags for collection of green waste and food waste.
Residents can put out as many brown sacks for collection as they wish, the Council will replace as many have been put out, up to a maximum of 4. Please clearly write your house number on each sack so that the collection crew can provide you with the correct number of replacement sacks.
Additional bags can be purchased from these outlets. Only brown bags supplied by us will be collected.
Please bear in mind when filling the bags, care needs to be taken with heavy or wet items, eg large quantities of windfall apples, as these can cause the bag to split when lifted.
Bags should be stored on your property before collection and should be put out by 7am on the day of collection and not before 6pm the day before.
What to put in your brown bag
Yes please
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Garden waste
- grass cuttings
- hedge cuttings
- flowers
- weeds
- bark and untreated wood
- sawdust and woodshavings
- rabbit or guinea pig bedding
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Kitchen waste
- vegetable and fruit peelings
- cooked and uncooked food waste - including meat, poultry, fish and dairy (preferably wrapped in newspaper)
- tea bags
- coffee filters
- stale bread
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Cardboard/other
- all cardboard food packaging and boxes - except carton
- phone books
- brown envelopes - please remove any plastic windows
- shredded paper
- coloured paper, eg craft and sugar paper
- brown paper
- soiled newspaper, eg from vegetarian pet bedding
- egg boxes
No thanks
- disposable nappies
- glass
- cans
- textiles
- soil
- stones
- painted or treated woods
- cat or dog waste
- oil - except small amounts soaked into cardboard
- non-compostable items
- liquid food and drink cartons, eg Tetra Pak
- plastic bags
- corn-starch bags
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