Registrations open for garden waste recycling service
Poster information
Posted on: Monday 14 January 2019
Gardeners can register now for Bridgend County Borough Council’s garden waste collection service which is returning this spring.
Fortnightly collections will make it possible to recycle garden waste including plants, flowers, weeds, grass, leaves and hedge clippings.
Collections will begin from Monday 18 March and will continue throughout the main growing season up until Friday 15 November. Residents who sign up to the seasonal service before Sunday 31 March will pay the early bird price of £28 per household, with a discounted rate of £24 for residents aged 60 and over.
Once payment is confirmed, households will be supplied with two reusable bags for their garden waste together with details of when their bags will be collected. Any returning customers who indicate that they don’t need any new bags will just be sent a calendar showing when their collections will be made.
The subscription fee covers the collection of two garden waste bags – any households who would like to be able to put out more garden waste bags each fortnight have the option of paying an additional £5 per extra bag.
The easiest way to subscribe is to do so online at the Kier recycling portal. Fifty of the online applicants will be selected at random to receive a free service for 2019.
This convenient scheme is run with our recycling partners Kier and all of the garden waste collected in Bridgend County Borough is taken to local firm Cowbridge Compost and turned into a compost fertilizer.
Just over 4250 homes signed up for the scheme in 2018, which was 668 more than in 2017. With so many extra homes signing up for the scheme last year, over 650 tonnes of garden waste was recycled instead of ending up in landfill.
We are often asked why residents have to pay for the garden waste collection scheme. Because not all homes in the county borough have gardens, we believe it is fairer to make it an optional scheme so that only the homes that want to receive the collections can choose to pay for them.
Councillor Hywel Williams, Bridgend County Borough Council’s Deputy Leader
Residents can also register and pay for the garden waste collection scheme by calling 01656 643643 and choosing option 2 for waste.
Garden waste can also be taken to the ‘tip’ at the household recycling centres in Tythegston, Brynmenyn Industrial Estate and the Heol Ty Gwyn Industrial Estate in Maesteg. For further details about recycling in Bridgend County Borough, please visit the Recycle for Bridgend website.