The garden waste service is an opt-in, chargeable service available to all Central Bedfordshire residents.
If you’ve paid for your garden waste bin to be collected in 2024/2025, the winter break is coming to an end, and fortnightly collections will restart on 24 February or 3 March – depending on which week your recycling is collected. Remember, you’ve paid up until the end of March for this service.
If you would like us to continue to collect your garden waste, you will need to re-subscribe and pay £56.10 per bin.
Your subscription is valid from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026. We will collect your garden waste fortnightly until December, pause for a 12-week winter break, and resume collections from late February to the end of March 2026.
Read the terms and conditions for the garden waste service. This is important information that you need to know before you sign up.
If you do not subscribe to the service and no longer need your garden waste bin, please keep your bin at your property in case you decide to subscribe at a later date or if a future tenant of the property wishes to use the service. We will not automatically remove the bin if you do not sign up.
You can subscribe for up to three bins per property. The cost for each additional bin remains the same – there is no discount for second or third bins.
Our garden waste subscription service is an environmentally friendly way of treating your garden waste, as the waste we collect is made into soil improver used in agriculture.
After you subscribe
After you have subscribed, we will send you an information pack in the post which contains a welcome letter, a flyer explaining how to use the service, and a permit to stick on your bin.
Your property will be added to our electronic database so that collection crews know which properties to collect from.
Please also stick the permit on the back of your bin, below the handle. Only wheelie bins displaying a valid permit sticker will be collected. The stickers will change each year.
Please be aware that packs containing bin stickers will be sent out to subscribers from 17 March 2025. If you subscribe after 17 March 2025, please allow 10 working days for your sticker and any additional bins you ordered to arrive. If you requested additional bins, you should receive the same number of stickers as bins. These will be sent to you separately and may arrive at different times.
If you’ve recently subscribed to our garden waste service and have yet to receive your permit, please do not worry. Please continue to present your bin as scheduled for collection. While the permit serves as a visual aid for our collection crew, please be assured that we have your garden waste subscription details stored on our database which is accessible to the team while on their rounds.
Please make sure you always put the bin out by 7am on your collection day. We will collect your bin fortnightly on your scheduled collection day between the end of February and December. Your collection day might change for this service in the future. Information about changes to the service will be updated on our bin collection day web pages.
Bins should be presented so that the permit can be viewed from the roadside to help our crews identify those subscribed to the garden waste service. Our crews will not collect bins if a permit is not displayed on them.
If you have subscribed, your collections will commence once you have received your permit sticker and affixed it to your bin and on your next scheduled collection day (excluding the winter break period).