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Garden Waste Collections
Garden Waste Collections
If you are unable to compost garden waste at home you can take it to the Villiers Road Recycling Centre to be composted.
The Council also provides a reusable, biodegradable Jute bag for the collection of green garden waste. Residents who purchase the bags can place two of them out for collection per week. The bags will be emptied weekly on the same day as your refuse and/or recycling and returned for you to reuse.
Please note, the bags purchased in 2007 and 2008 will not be taken for composting until after the scheme ends and this has now been extended until Febuary 2009.
What Can and Cannot go in the Green Bag
Include |
Do not Include |
|---|---|
| Grass Cuttings | Non biodegradable items |
| Weeds | Plastic plant pots, trays or bags |
| Old garden or house plants | Soil, rocks and stones |
| Twigs | Wire ties |
| Hedge Trimmings | Branches |
| Flowers | Tree trunks, stumps or logs |
| Leaves | Vegetable peelings or other food waste |
| Garden prunings | Turf |
To Purchase a reusable Jute bag please telephone: 0845 073 8990 (Local call rates apply). The phone lines are open for orders Monday to Friday 8am to 5 pm. Or you can order them online by following the link at the bottom of the page.
The reusable Jute bags cost £35 per bag (maximum order: 2 bags). A reduced charge of £20 will be made to residents in receipt of State Retirement Pension and/or are registered disabled. This charge is not for any specified period of use but for inclusion in the scheme between the date of purchase and the introduction of a replacement scheme. The current stock of bags all have an end date of 31 December 07 printed on them but the emptying of these will continue until end of Febuary 2009.
Details of a new service beyond March 2009 will be announced at the appropriate time.
A mail order service allows residents without a debit or credit card to pay by cheque please contact Customer Care on 020 8547 5560 for an order form or download a form you can print off at home.
Supplies of the Green plastic bags previously sold at libraries and council help desks have now sold out and our contractors are no longer contracted to collect them.
For more information about this service please email waste.management@rbk.kingston.gov.uk or telephone: 020 8547 5560.