Garden Waste and Home Composting
Garden Waste 
In urban areas, green-lidded wheeled bins allow you to recycle garden waste at the kerbside. These bins are emptied during the growing season - in 2008 ending on 31st October and starting again on 30th March 2009.
Please put the green-lidded bins at your kerbside collection point on your garden waste collection day.
Green-lidded bins are for garden waste, including:
- flowers and plants
- garden weeds
- grass clippings
- hedge trimmings
- leaves
- prunings
- small branches
Please do not put food waste, plastic bags, plastics, soil and rubble, animal faeces or bedding into your green-lidded garden waste bin as they cannot be composted through this service.
You may put out a second garden waste bin - you can buy one via the Helpline or "convert" an old wheeled bin by painting its lid green and requesting official Council stickers from the Helpline.
Composting
Home composting is a great way of dealing with garden waste as it produces a useful product for your garden and involves no transport/no resources other than your own effort. It also reduces the amount of waste in your bin. Learn more about home composting in the Scottish Borders.
Contact us
Telephone Helpline: 01835 825128
Email: The Recycling Team
By post: The Recycling Team, Scottish Borders Council, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SA
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