Recycle your garden waste
Salford City Council has introduced a free door to door garden rubbish collection service.
If you would like to take part in this scheme, please contact the call centre on 909 6500 and we will (subject to availability and location) provide you with a standard sized wheeled bin, with a magenta coloured lid to identify it from your normal waste bin.
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 always be on a Monday and will include 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 do not hesitate to 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 2nd bin?
YES PLEASE
- Garden greenery
- Grass cuttings
- Hedge clippings
- Tree pruning
- Leaves and bark
- Woody green waste up to 6” in diameter
NO THANKS
- Plastic bags
- General rubbish
- Flower pots
- Garden furniture
- Diseased plants
- Bricks & rubble
- Soil
- Building materials
- Food/Kitchen waste
- Animal waste products
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 there after on Mondays, even if this is a Bank Holiday!
Please put your garden rubbish bin out by 7.00am on Monday fortnightly. 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.
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’ table 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 2nd 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 - Telephone
- 0161-909 6500
- environment@salford.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 09 July 2008
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