Islanders Invited To Renew Green Garden Waste Collection

Households that pay to receive the Isle of Wight Council’s Green Garden Waste collection service can now renew their subscription.

Current customers are being given priority to renew their garden waste subscription which runs from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025

If you pay by direct debit, this should automatically renew, and you will have received an email confirming your payment details for 2024. Please double check payment details are up to date here.

If you pay annually by card, you will also have been sent an email with details on how to re-subscribe, so please check your emails, including your junk folder.

The optional fortnightly scheme lets customers subscribe online for a 240-litre wheeled bin or three reusable hessian sacks to be picked up from the kerbside for a total cost of £102 per year, working out at £8.50 a month.

Garden waste (top right) can prove troublesome

Councillor Lora Peacey-Wilcox, Cabinet lead for waste said:

“We come to you and continue to make your gardening life easier.  You won’t have to put heavy and wet garden waste in your car boot.”

"Now is the time to re-subscribe for your garden waste service so it can be picked up from your doorstep, and means no more trips the tip with bugs and spiders in your car; and the bins are definitely much easier for brambles and rose bushes - much fewer scratches."

Service Director for Waste, Environment and Planning, Natasha Dix, said:

“Our garden waste scheme is popular, and we are reminding our current customers to make sure they renew annual subscriptions to reserve their space for this year.

“All garden waste collected by the council is composted locally here on the Island and all of this contributes to our  national recycling targets.

"We will also be accepting new customers from 20 February.”

The council will accept garden waste such as grass cuttings, leaves and sticks. Please no logs, rubble or soil.  The garden waste subscription also includes a free Christmas tree collection service in January.

Information on your subscription and how to renew can be found online.

The subscription will run from 1 April to 31 March each year, apart from the initial registration period.

If you are planning on signing up for the first time, new subscribers are being accepted from 20 February 2023, for full details on the service click here.