The service is a convenient way for you to recycle your garden waste without having to take it to a Household Waste Recycling Centre.
It is a chargeable collection service offering you the option of either a green re-useable sack or brown lidded wheeled bin which is collected from your property. The green waste is sent for composting to a site in Hampshire, where it is turned into 'Pro-Grow' and sold in local Household Waste Recycling Centres.
All the garden waste collected contributes towards the borough's recycling scheme.
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Application form to print off and return in the post >> (317kb PDF)
By telephone: 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
An annual collection licence will be valid from 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013.
Concessions are available to those residents on certain benefits for the garden waste sack ONLY, please see application form for more details regarding eligibility.
Once an annual licence is purchased it is non-refundable.
On joining the scheme you'll receive a brown lidded bin or reusable garden waste sack, along with a calendar showing your collection dates for the duration of your licence.
If you receive an assisted collection for your rubbish and recycling service you will automatically be eligible for assistance with the Garden Waste Collection Service. The location of the wheeled bin or sack needs to be given on the application form or by advising Customer Services when applying by telephone.
The wheeled bin remains the property of Havant Borough Council. The amount payable for this service is for your yearly collection licence only.
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/wheeled bin. Sacks or wheeled bins 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 up to 70 litres. Sacks weighing over 20Kg WILL NOT be collected.
The wheeled bin will hold up to 240 litres. If the lid is not closed or the collection crew are unable to tip and pull the bin safely, then it WILL NOT be collected.
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.
Click here to view the Compost Bin and Water Butt Offer.
To find out more information on how to compost, go to www.recyclenow.com/compost.