 Dear householder, If you want to have your garden waste bin emptied after 1 October [2024] you can now subscribe to Shropshire Council's garden waste service. A year's subscription costs £56 per garden waste bin and runs from 1 October to 30 September [2025]. If you've not subscribed, garden waste collections will stop from 1 October 2024 . To subscribe click on the link below. We need to make significant savings and must look at new ways of creating income to help protect essential services for those residents most in need. 80% of English councils already charge for garden waste collections, and many have done so for several years. Shropshire's annual garden waste subscription charge of £56 is in line with many neighbouring councils and very close to the national average charge. Though the collection of garden waste is not a service the council must by law provide, it's one that we want to continue to provide as we know many residents value this. However, from October this will be a chargeable service for those who choose to use it.  If you don't subscribe, your garden waste won't be collected from 1 October. However, if you decide later this is a service you need, you can start your subscription any time before April 2025. You might like to consider alternatives such as home composting, or taking your garden waste to your nearest recycling centre. Please don't put garden waste in your general waste bin as this is taken to our energy recovery facility, which can't accept garden waste. Your general waste bin won't be emptied if it contains garden waste. For more information please visit our website.
From 1 October 2024 food waste collections will be suspended as councils cannot charge for this service. Subscribers to the garden waste service will no longer be able to put food waste in their garden bin. However, all councils in England must introduce a weekly food waste collection to all properties from 2026 and Shropshire Council will introduce a new food waste collection service to all households from that date. We encourage you to reduce, reuse and recycle your food waste as much as you possibly can so that less waste needs to be disposed of, and this includes trying home composting. If home composting isn't possible, you can put food waste into your black bin.   | 
