What you can put in a green garden waste bin or sack

You can include:

• Branches - up to 10cm or 4 inches in thickness
• Flowers
• Grass cuttings
• Hedge prunings
• Leaves
• Leaves and bark
• Plants
• Straw or sawdust - bedding material from pets such as gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs and rabbits, as long as fed a vegetarian diet
• Twigs
• Weeds - no Japanese Knotweed

You can’t include:

• Cardboard: put this in your blue bag
• Cat, dog or other pet litter
• Compost
• Cooked and uncooked food: put this in your brown food bin
• Japanese Knotweed
• Nappies
• Plant pots
• Soil and turf
• Stone or rubble
• Treated wood
• Vacuum cleaner contents