Brown bin

We can only compost...

Cooked and uncooked food waste (make sure all food waste is taken out of it's packaging)
Fruit and vegetable peelings
Meat, fish and bones
Dead flowers
Grass and hedge cuttings
Weeds (not Japanese Knotweed or Ragwort)
Leaves and windfall fruit
Real Christmas trees (make sure you remove all decorations and the base!)

We can't compost...

Plastic bags, flower pots or any other plastic items
Glass, metal, plastic or cardboard
Cat or dog litter and faeces
Painted or treated wood
Vacuum dust or fire cinders
Soil, stones or rubble
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Any type of animal waste

Garden plant waste

Here is some more detail on how to recycle garden plant waste in your Brown Bin.

We can only compost...

• grass
• leaves
• weeds (not Japanese Knotweed or Ragwort)
• flowers and plants
• hedge clipping or prunings
• branches and twigs
• windfall fruit

We can't compost...

• plastic bags, flower pots, seed trays or other plastic items
• cat or dog faeces
• large branches or tree stumps
• soil, stones or rubble
• painted or treated wood
• other rubbish from the garden
• any type of animal waste

Remember

• remove all food waste from its packaging
• if you use caddy liners make sure they meet the EN13432 standard and show the compostable "seed" logo.

Too much for one bin?

You can purchase additional garden waste bins.  Check out our *Garden Waste page for more information.  You will need a subscription in place for the brown bins to be emptied.

Find out more about the Garden Waste subscription service here.