Refuse and Waste

Household Waste - Garden Waste

Garden waste can be used for composting at home or can be brought to the recycle and reuse centres for composting.

If you have a garden, green waste can contribute as much as 30% of your typical household waste.

Even if you don't have a garden, other 'organic' waste can still make up a large part of your weekly waste. So why not do something great with it?

Reduces pollution - Being organic and biodegradable, when garden waste goes to landfill it produces methane - a very potent greenhouse gas (20 times worse than carbon dioxide - which is also released during the rotting process)
Reduces the need for landfills - With so much garden waste being produced, a lot of space is needed to provide landfill for it. This is space that we are fast running out of
Protects the countryside - Garden waste is made into compost, which is used instead of peat-based products. Extracting peat is environmentally damaging as the bogs take thousands of years to form and digging them up destroys a natural and fragile habitat for plants and wildlife
Burning garden waste releases carbon dioxide and toxins that are harmful to health. It is also bad for the environment

Each person in the UK throws away around 194 kilograms of garden waste each year - the equivalent of 2,800 banana skins.

Your Green Garden waste scheme has now re-started. Find out more about the scheme.

Thank you for contributing to save the environment.

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