Composting household waste makes perfect sense. It's a great way of creating free, environmentally friendly fertisler for your garden and it reduces the amount of waste that goes to landfil. To support local recycling efforts, cut price compost bins are on offer. Order from www.gcc.getcomposting.com or call 0845 130 60 90 for more information.
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Compost Bin Special Offer (PDF 536KB) - 05/10/2009
You can take your garden waste to the civic amenity sites at Pyke Quarry, Horsley or Hempsted, Gloucester - disposal to householders is free. Your garden waste will then be composted. If you intend to use a van or trailer, please read the following - Further information.
The centres are open every day except Christmas Day and New Years day and opening times are 8.00 a.m. to 4.45 p.m in wintertime (GMT) and 8.00 a.m. to 7.45 p.m during the summer (BST).
Further information can be found on the www.recycleforgloucestershire.com website.
Do you and your neighbours have garden waste that could be shredded and turned into material suitable for mulching beds or borders?
You can arrange with our grounds maintenance contractor, Wyevale to have a chipping machine brought to your property for a community composting event. These events are advertised to local residents and are open for anybody in the neighbourhood to bring their green waste to the designated site for mulching. If you would like to hold an event please contact Wyevale on 01454 419175.
We run a pre-paid garden waste collection service. You can buy the special garden refuse sacks for 60p at a number of Post offices and Council offices, and when filled put them out for collection along with your normal household waste.
Please note, this is a last option for disposing of garden waste and any material presented will be collected with general refuse and sent to landfill.
A list of Garden sack outlets is available to download below:
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Garden Sack Outlets (PDF 17KB) - 24/08/2009
