Garden waste services
The way you dispose of your garden waste changed on 26 March 2021.
Following an extensive review of waste management that was carried out to help make our approach to waste more sustainable in response to rising costs and changing legislation.
A garden waste permit is now required for this service.
Your brown bin
Your 240L brown bin (or biodegradable sacks) is for all types of garden waste and will be collected every four weeks.
Please note: Should you collect garden waste between December and February please do not place within your green general waste bin - store it in your brown bin or take it to your nearest Recycling Centre.
Collection day
Place the brown bin at your normal collection point by 6:30am on your collection day.
Check your bin collection day
What you can and cannot put in your brown bin
Yes please
You can recycle:
- grass cuttings
- leaves and bark
- flowers or cut flowers
- houseplants
- hedge trimmings and prunings
- weeds
- twigs and small branches – cut into lengths to fit
- potted plants and herbs (without the pot)
- windfall fruit
- sawdust
- hay
No thanks
- plastics bags
- kitchen waste, for example meat, dairy or vegetable peelings (place in food caddy)
- pet waste
- soil and turf (take to Recycling Centre)
- stones (take to Recycling Centre)
Zero Waste Scotland's recycling sorter
You can also visit the Zero Waste Scotland website and use their online recycling sorter for any local authority in Scotland.
Top tips
If you do not have a brown bin please use the supplied biodegradable sacks for your garden waste instead
Take your excess garden waste to your nearest Recycling Centre where it will be recycled, and you can collect your free Compost To Go at the same time
What happens to the collected garden waste?
Your collected garden waste is recycled into an accredited compost like product which can be collected free of charge from the Recycling Centres.