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Garden Waste and Composting

Garden waste

If disposed of in landfill sites, garden waste and other types of organic material can produce harmful greenhouse gases.

We provide a fortnightly Green Waste Scheme to residents who pay a yearly subscripton. However, due to high demand, we are currently not accepting new customers. We will be informing residents as soon as we are able to add further subscriptions to this service.

Alternatively, 4 - 12 sacks of garden waste can be collected FREE of charge. Your garden waste will then be composted. Each household may have up to 4 free collections of garden waste per year.

To book a garden waste collection, please telephone 01993 861020 or fill in our online form. State your name, address, a daytime telephone number and the number of sacks that you would like collected. Your sacks of garden waste need to be placed at the front of your property by 6.00 am on your day of collection.

Home Composting

*The free compost bin offer for national Compost Awareness Week has now closed. However, there is a discount compost bin offer running throughout 2008. See below for more details.

Discount compost bin offer for 2008.

As part of West Oxfordshire District Council's campaign to encourage recycling, we are offering home composters to residents at a discount price.

The composters are available from just £17.00 (including delivery) to all Oxfordshire residents.

For more information and to place an order, please call the Order Hotline on 0845 077 0757, visit Recycle Now or complete a form. You can also find a printable price list and order form on the right hand side of this page.

The Guide to Home Composting offers tips on how to make the most of your home composter. For further advice please visit Recycle Now.

The Environmental Benefits of home composting

You will be amazed at how much space you will now have in your bin. Up to 30% of the content is usually kitchen waste. There are also many further benefits for the environment:

Reduction in generation of climate changing gases such as methane, produced when organic matter does not break down naturally in a landfill site.
Reduction in generation of leachate liquid - This can pollute our water courses when washed out from landfill sites.
Reduction in use of peat-based compost will protect rich and diverse wildlife habitats from destruction.
Reduced need for chemicals and artificial fertilizers will protect your soil and wildlife.
Increasing life span of existing landfill sites, therefore reducing the need for more.