Garden Waste

NOTE: WINDFALL FRUIT

Windfall fruit can be placed within garden waste bins and sacks.  All other food waste must be placed within food waste recycling collection.

Recycle your Garden Waste in many ways:

1. Subscribe to a wheeled bin
2. Purchase Garden Waste sacks
3. Bundling larger items together
4. Via a bulky waste collection
5. Compost at home
6. Take to Recycling Centre for Household Waste

Garden Waste is collected weekly all year around

What is collected? Click here:

1.

Wheeled bin subscription service

Residents can opt into our subscription wheeled bin garden waste collection service:

	2018/19 subscriptions (subscription ends 31 March 2019)
	Now only £15 per bin for period to 31 March 2019
	Bins will be delivered within 28 days of subscription.a
	Subscriptions run April to March, but can be taken up at any time during the year

^aTerms & Conditions apply - click here [pdf] 67KB

What are the benefits of having a wheeled bin? 

	No need to keep buying sacks
	Price of one bin is equivalent to buying 6 rolls of sacks per year
	Easier to use than sacks
	Wheeled bin is more suitable for thorny and twiggy material
	You subscribe to as many bins you want at the same price

Already have a subscription?

We will contact you direct to inform you how to resubscribe.

2.

Garden Waste sack

If you do not wish to subscribe to our yearly wheeled bin collection service you will need to purchase the Castle Point Borough Council specified garden waste sacks - other garden waste sacks will not be collected. 

	Sacks guaranteed to last up to 3 weeks while full
	Handles for easier tying
	Sacks are £5 per roll of 20
	Purchase the Castle Point Borough Council specified garden waste sacks sacks from: Canvey Library Hadleigh Library S.Benfleet Library Tarpots Library Waterside Farm Sports Centre
	Purchase from our online shop and get your sacks delivered to your door (P&P charges apply): www.biobag-uk.com/castlepoint

Garden Waste presented in Black Sacks will not be collected Only Castle Point Borough Council brown bins, Council specified garden waste sacks, or bundled waste will be collected.

3. Bundle larger items

If you have larger hedge trimmings, or branches these can be bundled together

	Logs or branches up to 7cm (3") in diameter and 1m (3') long will be accepted if tied together with twine
	No need to attach a sack
	Maximum 2 bundles per collection

4. Bulky Waste collections

Do you have large quantity of garden waste to recycle?

	What is collected? Click here:
	Prices start from £30
	For more information contact: recycling@castlepoint.gov.uk

5. Compost at Home

Compost at Home - It’s easy, good for your pocket & great for the environment

	Make your own free compost which can be spread back on your garden, hanging basket or potted plants
	Cheap and quick to get started
	Almost all garden waste can be composted. Some food waste can be composted too!
	Home composting helps to reduce your carbon footprint
	Buy a subsidised compost bin:

 

6. Take to the Recycling Centre

	It is still FREE to take your garden waste to the Recycling Centre for Household Waste, Canvey Road, Canvey Island
	Recycle other wastes at the same time)