Garden Waste and Composting

All households with a garden are provided with a green garden waste bag. This bag is collected fortnightly. For details about collection days please see our bin collection page.

I need a bag or want more bags?

Contact us for information on how to buy up to four additional bags.

What can go in my green bag?

What else can I do with my garden and kitchen waste?

At least 30% of the contents of the average household bin could be composted at home. Items you can compost at home include:

• fruit and vegetable peelings
• tea bags and coffee grounds
• flowers and grass cuttings
• cardboard egg boxes
• bedding from vegetarian pets (straw/hay)
• shredded paper
• garden prunings
• natural fibre clothing (wool/cotton)

Home composting is an inexpensive way to help the environment, and at the same time make your own quality organic compost.

Advantages of using compost include:

• helping your garden plants without the expense and inconvenience of obtaining fertilisers
• helping sandy soils to retain moisture but can also open up clay soils to help reduce water logging
• reducing the need for peat, so helps to cut the demand for peat extraction in sensitive areas
• land filling of organic waste produces methane. Methane has 30 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide

How can I get a composting bin?

You can order a discount compost bin from the the Recycle Now website. 

More information

• Compost Association
• Community Compost
• Wasteonline Compost
• RecycleNow Compost
  

Page last reviewed 25 Sep 2008