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The garden waste club
Membership of the club runs from 1 April to 31 March the following year and is an easy way of disposing of your garden waste through fortnightly kerbside collections using a brown wheelie bin.
It is hassle-free, meaning no more trips to the recycling centre and no need to mess up the boot of your car.
The really important bits of garden waste club terms and conditions
We are no longer supplying branded garden waste stickers. To make sure collections run smoothly, please add the first line of your address to your bin (using a marker pen or sticker) so that our crews can easily identify it.
Your bin needs to be out by 7am on your allocated day of collection.
- Bins remain council property. However, you are responsible for the bin while you are a member of the garden waste club.
- Payment does not guarantee you a specific number of collections and you should know that we do not collect in the two weeks over Christmas and New Year.
- You are responsible for filling your bin appropriately. We won’t empty bins where guidelines have not been followed.
- Full T&C’s can be found in the right hand column of this webpage in the documents section.
- We do reserve the right to withdraw individual membership or the service as a whole at any time.
- Once you’ve signed up you have a 14 day cooling off period. Refunds outside of the 14 day cooling off period are fully at the discretion of the council.
- Our crews need to be able to identify your bin. Please ensure that the first line of your address is prominently displayed on your bin.
FAQs: garden waste club
No. We are no longer supplying branded garden waste stickers.
It is important that you add the first line of your address to your bin so that our crews can easily identify it. Our crews cannot empty a bin that is not linked to a property.
- Your address needs to be very clearly visible to our crews.
- You can use marker pens, stickers or paint to add your address to your bin
- If you leave your bin at a shared collection point or anywhere other than directly outside your home, it’s especially important that the first line of your address is clearly marked.
Yes, garden waste club renewals run from early February to 1 April. Your bin will still be collected during this period.
Yes you can buy multiple garden waste memberships for one address if you wish to have more than one bin.
If you have used our online service previously, your information will be stored online so that your renewal is even easier to complete.
You need to order your bin separately by visiting here.
Bins must be presented by 7am on your allocated day of collection.
Collections are paused over the festive period for two weeks and on bank holidays. Collections are normally resumed on the next working day. Please check via the online tewkesbury.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling for up-to-date information about collections over bank holiday periods.
No. Your garden waste membership starts on 1 April and ends on 31 March the next year.
FAQs: brown bin
- Grass cuttings
- Hedge and shrub clippings
- Leaves, twigs and bark
- Plants, flowers and weeds
- Small branches
- Windfall fruit
No. Food waste (peelings, cooked food, etc.) must not be put into the brown bin. This is a legal restriction, introduced after the BSE crisis, to prevent the spreading of bacteria. As garden waste is composted in the open air, contamination from kitchen and animal waste can cause widespread distribution of bacteria, leading to viral outbreaks such as BSE (mad cow disease) and Foot-and-Mouth disease.
Kitchen waste should be put into your kitchen caddy, and you can also compost uncooked food waste at home.
No, animal waste (faeces, bedding, etc.) must not be put into the brown bin, for the reason explained above. Double-bag dog and cat waste and put into your green wheeled bin. Bedding and waste from vegetarian pets can be composted at home.
Soil attached to roots is not a problem, but large amounts of soil make the brown bin extremely heavy, making it impossible to empty the bin.
No. Plastic and earthenware pots cannot be composted. Sprinkle old compost from growbags onto your lawn, or around the shrubs.
The odour is part of the natural process of decomposition. Do not put disinfectant or synthetic insecticides in the brown bin, as this will interfere with the natural composting process.
No, please do not put any type of bag or sack in the bin. The collection and composting process is fully automated, and there is no opportunity for the crew to open plastic sacks.
The garden waste collected by Tewkesbury Borough Council and at Wingmoor Farm Household Recycling Centre is processed using a method called Open Windrow Composting at the Enovert operated site situated next to the HRC at Wingmoor Farm near Bishops Cleeve.
This process takes place and in the open and starts with shredding the garden waste and placing it in long heaps called windrows. Over about 10 weeks, these windrows are continuously turned and this helps to add air and convert the waste into compost. About a third is used on site to help restore areas that have been filled with landfill waste, and the remainder is sold in bulk to farmers who collect the compost for use on their fields.
