Garden Waste Subscriptions reminder

Residents are being reminded to renew or sign up for the first time to Cheshire East Council s Garden Waste Recycling Scheme.

It is just a handful of weeks now until the new 2025 service starts on 20 January. Garden waste collections for current-year subscribers will finish on Friday 20 December.

Residents need to opt-in to the new scheme to use their garden bin to recycle their green waste and will pay an annual subscription fee for their bin to be collected.

If you signed up to the council s Garden Waste Recycling Scheme for 2024, you will now need to renew your subscription. Subscriptions are £59 per garden bin per year, with a 25 per cent reduction in the fee available for those receiving qualifying benefits.

Once subscribed, residents will be sent a welcome pack containing their subscription sticker, which will have their address and unique subscription number on it.

Residents are urged to attach the new coloured sticker to the back of their garden bin (handle side) as soon as they receive it but not obscuring any current subscription sticker as garden bins without a valid sticker displaying will not be emptied.

Providing that their email address is still the same, residents who subscribed to the service last year will receive a resubscribe email, enabling them to simply click the link to renew.

To join the garden waste subscription scheme or to renew your current subscription, please visit: Garden bin subscription (cheshireeast.gov.uk)

Residents not able to sign up online can contact the council on 0300 123 5011.

For information about changes to bin collections over the festive period, visit the council s webpage at: www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/bins