Garden Waste Collection Service
Havant Borough Council provide a
chargeable Garden Waste Collection Service using a reuseable
sack, the green waste is sent for composting to the
Down End Composting Site where it is turned into
'Pro-Grow' which is sold in Household Waste Recycling Centres
across Hampshire.
How the service operates
Garden Waste Collection Service
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leaflet
Applications for an annnual licence and to receive a
garden waste sack can be made in one of the following
ways:
By telepone: Please call our Customer
Services help line on 023 9244 6023 to pay by
credit or debit card.
Personal visit: Customer Services, Civic
Offices, Havant or Beachlands Office, Sea Front, Hayling Island.
Please bring a completed application form with your payment (this
can be obtained by post by contacting Customer Services on the
above number).
By mail: Complete the application form and post
it with your cheque made payable to 'Havant Borough
Council' to the following address.
Garden Waste Collection Service
Customer Services, Civic Offices,
Havant, Hampshire, PO9 2AX
About the service
An annual collection licence will be valid from 1 April
2010 to 31 March 2011.
Concessions are available to those residents on certain
benefits, please see application form for more details regarding
eligibility.
A reduction in price of the annual collection licence will be
applied if you join the scheme after September 2010.
Once an annual or half year collection licence is purchased it
is non-refundable.
Those joining the scheme this year will be sent a
garden waste sack and licence
in the form of a tag, together with a calendar showing your
collection dates for the duration of your licence.
What can and can't go into the garden waste sacks
The following items can be collected as part of this
service:
- Grass cuttings
- Hedge cuttings
- Prunings
- Leaves
- Shrub cuttings
- Dead plants/weeds
- Cut flowers
- Small branches/twigs (Not exceeding 3" (75mm) in diameter)
The following items cannot be placed in the sack:
- Soil including turf
- Concrete or rubble
- Fruit/vegetable peelings
- Food scraps
- Coal ash
- Animal waste
- General household waste
- Plastic flower pots or trays
It is VERY IMPORTANT that only the
correct items are placed in the garden waste
sack. Sacks that contain black sacks, or any other items
that are not listed as acceptable for this service,
WILL NOT be collected.
The reusable sacks will hold a maximum capacity of 20kg (45lbs).
Sacks weighing over 20Kg WILL
NOT be collected.
Home Composting
Currently Havant Borough Council are not offering a subsidised
compost bin offer.
Composting is easier than you think!
It is an enviromentally friendly way of getting rid of organic
waste from your kitchen and garden, giving you a completely
natural, peat free, compost to dig back into your garden.
After 9-12 months, depending how much you put into your compost
bin, you will have a rich, totally organic compost to put back onto
your garden.
To find out more information go to www.recyclenow.com/compost.