Recycle your garden waste
Find out when your garden waste will be collected
Please enter your street name or full postcode. Your garden waste collection day will be displayed, together with other useful rubbish and recycling information.
Salford has a free door to door garden and food waste collection service.
If you would like to take part in this scheme, please contact the call centre on 0161 909 6500 and we will provide you with a standard sized wheeled bin, with a magenta-coloured lid to identify it from your normal waste bin (subject to availability and location).
When you get your bin, you will be given a start date for the first collection and collections will be made on a fortnightly basis thereafter. This will be on either Monday or Saturday (including bank holidays). There will be a sticker placed on your bin so you can always check when your bin will be emptied.
Should you have any further questions please contact the call centre on 0161 909 6500.
Frequently asked questions
- What can I put in this bin?
- When will I know the first collection is going to take place?
- What should I remember?
- Excess garden waste
- Contamination
- What should I do in the event of a missed collection?
- What if I need a second bin?
Yes please
- Grass and hedge cuttings
- Leaves and bark
- Twigs and small branches
- Dead plants
- Fallen fruit
- Flowers and plants (no plant pots please!)
- Leftovers from your meals
- Bread, cakes and pastries
- Fruit and vegetables
- Dairy products, e.g. cheese or yoghurt
- Rice and pasta
- Eggs - including shells
- Meat and fish - raw and cooked, including fat and bones
- Tea bags and ground coffee
- Pet food
No thanks
- General rubbish
- Plastic bags
- Garden furniture including flower pots
- Diseased plants
- Soil
- Building materials in bricks and rubble
- Pernicious weeds such as Japanese Knotweed, Giant Hogweed and Himalayan Balsam (these are not native to the UK and it is illegal to transport them. Please contact registered contractors for removal and disposal needs)
When will I know the first collection is going to take place?
A sticker will be attached to your new bin and the first collection date will be displayed. Further collections will be fortnightly thereafter on either Monday or Saturday.
Please put your garden rubbish bin out by 7.00am on your day of collection. The bin should be placed at your normal collection point.
Where garden rubbish, tied with string, is left at the side of the bin it will be collected. Please note: no garden rubbish in plastic bags will be taken.
A garden rubbish bin will not be emptied if it has items it shouldn’t have in it (see the ‘yes please’ and ‘no thanks’ lists above).
What should I do in the event of a missed collection?
Please ring our call centre on 0161 909 6500.
If you have a large garden and find you can use a second bin, please write to us or email and your request will be considered.
Who to contact
- Name
- Environment Directorate
- Address
- Salford City Council
Turnpike House
631 Eccles New Road
Salford
M5 2SH
Map to this location - Telephone
- 0161 909 6500
- environment@salford.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 23 September 2011
