It's important you don't put anything in your green garden waste bin or sacks that we can't use.
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