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Garden Waste and Home Composting
Garden Waste Collection Service
Eastleigh Borough Council offer a garden waste collection
service to the whole of the borough. You can dispose of your
garden waste direct from your home.
The cost of this service is £27.80
(price effective from 1st April) per bag for a full year's
subscription, or £19.00 if you join after 1st October. There
is a reduction in this cost if you are in receipt of Council Tax
benefit or Housing benefit (proof of your benefit will be needed
when paying for the service).
Brambridge Garden Centre and Arturi Garden
Centre are supporting the Council's Garden Waste Collection Scheme.
They are both offering great discounts to garden scheme
members for 2012 starting on 1st
April.
Find out how to get your
discount
Use our property search facility on the right of this page
to find out your collection day for this service.
What you get for your money
Once you have
paid for the service you will be provided with a large, durable
woven plastic bag. The bag measures 60cm x 45cm x 45cm (2' x 1'6" x
1'6"). You then fill this bag with all your garden waste and leave
the bag at the edge of your property. As the bags are manually
lifted and emptied, there is a weight limit of 25 kgs per bag.
Overweight bags will not be emptied.
Acceptable Garden Waste Materials
- Grass and hedge cuttings
- Weeds
- Leaves and small branches/prunings (no more than 5cm in
diameter)
- You will be allocated a
collection day and your bag will be emptied on that day each
week. Please follow the normal domestic waste calendar for
days affected by Bank Holidays. The service runs throughout
the year (except for the Christmas period) so it can be used in
winter too.
Interested in joining
Garden Waste Service?
If you haven't used the service before, please
register your details. You will then receive a
letter with your reference number allowing you to subscribe to the
service.
If you are a new or exisiting
customer and would like to pay by Direct
Debit, download the Direct Debit form (Word).
You will need to print and complete the form and return it to
us at the following address:
Garden Waste Service
Direct Services
Hedge End Depot
Botley Road
Hedge End
Southampton
SO30 2RA
If you have received your renewal letter, or would like to pay for
the service having registered, please
make an online payment or alternatively call our
payment line on 0845 606 6518.
Has your bag worn out or gone missing?
Report
missing/damaged bags, missing tags or if you need a replacement
sticker.
Home Composting
Watch a video on how to compost
Composting
help and advice at the recyclenow website
All your fruit and vegetable peelings along with cuttings from
your garden can be added to a compost bin or heap. You can also add
brown cardboard or shredded paper and, in a few 
months, you'll have your very own compost to put back onto
your garden.
Eastleigh Borough Council in partnership with Straight plc can
offer compost bins, including delivery and information, for as
little as £21.49.
Order your bin online at www.hants.getcomposting.com
or call 0844 571 4444 quoting reference
HANTSS05L.
Download the Compost
Bin Special Offer leaflet here.
Christmas Trees
Did You Know?
Over six million trees were bought in the UK last
Christmas. Most of these trees were thrown away, creating
over 9,000 tonnes of additional rubbish. That is almost five times
the weight of the London Eye!
The collected trees are composted or treated along with other
green waste to produce an environmentally friendly range from PRO
GROW which includes lawn conditioner, pine bark, woodchip
mulch and peat free soil conditioner.
To find out more about items from this range, including free
delivery, please visit the Pro Grow
website