Garden Waste

Yes, please

• Grass cuttings
• Hedge clippings
• Twigs and small branches - Max 10 cm in Diameter
• Leaves and weeds
• Dead flowers
• Small amounts of potting compost (not bags)

No, thanks

• Bagged garden waste
• Any waste that is accepted in your green bin or brown bin with the grey lid
• Plant Pots
• Plastic bags
• Large amounts of soil or grass sods
• Animal waste
• Treated wood
• Bricks and rubble
• Organic food waste (including windfall fruit)

No, council tax covers the cost of collection and disposal of statutory residual and recycling waste.

The Environment Protection Act 1990 states that “no charge shall be made for the collection of household waste except in cases prescribed in regulations”. The Controlled Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2012, as amended, provides for these exceptions. It includes (among other things) the exception to be able to charge for garden waste.

Residents can sign up online and pay a one-off payment below.

Click here to Sign up online and pay a one-off payment here.

The cost of the garden waste subscription is £35 for the 2024 garden waste season (April – November). For additional garden waste bins its £25 per subscription. If your property does not have an existing garden waste bin it will be a one off payment of £25 per bin required.

If residents are in receipt of council tax support, the subscription fee is reduced to £17.50 per bin. You will be required to include your council tax customer number when subscribing to the service.

Garden waste can be taken for free to the Household Waste and Recycling Centre on Redfield Rd (NG7 2UJ). Garden waste must not be put into other household waste or recycling bins. Contaminated bins may be subject to enforcement action which may lead to fines.

Click to Visit Household Waste and Recycling Centre

You can find this out by visiting the bin collection calendar where you can also sign up for bin reminders. Bins must be presented at the boundary of the property by 7:00am on the day of collection.

Bin collection calendar

Your garden waste bin will be collected on a fortnightly basis between April – September and then once in October and once in November. 

Yes, you can apply for additional garden waste bins if needed. 

Apply for additional garden waste bins

Residents who move within the city boundary cannot transfer their subscription. There are no refunds for the cancellation of the service. 

Residents who need support with putting their bin out for collection can apply online for an Assisted Pull Out (APO) service. Our frontline crews can help collect your wheelie bin from an agreed storage point, empty the wheelie bin and return the bin back.

Garden waste collected from properties across the city as well as the garden waste collected at the Household Waste and Recycling Centre is taken to a recycling plant which processes the waste into compost.

Yes of course. Why not get together with your neighbours or the other people that share your house and divide the cost between you all? The bin will need to be registered to one occupier as a bill cannot be split and sent individually to those that will be using the bin.

•    All garden waste bins are required to be purchased with a garden waste collection subscription.
•    We aim to deliver your additional or replacement bin within 10 working days.
•    We aim to deliver your garden waste permit within 7-10 days.
•    All bins supplied to you remain the property of Nottingham City Council and can be removed if misused. 
•    Nottingham City Council reserve the right to refuse to collect any bin(s) found to be containing incorrect materials. If your bin is stickered as contaminated, please remove any incorrect items so that your bin can be emptied on your next collection day.
•    If your bin(s) becomes damaged, you are liable to purchase a replacement, unless it can be evidenced that the damage was done during the collection process.
•    Your bin(s) should be put out on the kerbside at the front of your property before 7am on the day of your collection.  Please place your bin(s) where collection crews can see and access it from the roadside, but do not block the pavement.
•    Your bin(s) should be removed from the pavement no later than 7pm on the day of collection.