The government recently brought in new rules about what councils have to collect and recycle. This is to help standardise collections across England. However, our current recycling scheme is already compliant with rules, meaning we have not had to make any changes.
When you subscribe for garden waste collections for 2026-27, we will send out your stickers as soon as possible via Royal Mail. If you don't receive your sticker within four weeks of subscribing, you can contact us. To help with a continuous service, you need to put your new sticker on your bin, underneath the handles, as soon possible after it arrives.
Garden waste collections
We introduced an opt-in subscription service for garden waste in March 2025.
You can find full details on the scheme, including costs and how it works, as well as why we introduced it, via the pages in this section.