Hartlepool households urged to sign up for garden waste bin collection service
Gardeners across Hartlepool can sign up now for the council’s garden waste collections.
Brown bins will start being emptied from Tuesday, April 7, and only households that subscribe to the service will be collected.
The annual subscription for one bin is £41 – £4 more expensive than last year and £6 up on 2024.
To receive all eight monthly collections between April and November, residents must subscribe before Monday, March 23.
Last year just over 13,000 households subscribed and 1,831 tonnes of garden waste was collected and composted at a local facility.
Councillor Owen Riddle, chair of Hartlepool Borough Council’s neighbourhoods and regulatory services committee, said: “I’d like to thank the thousands of residents who have signed up annually for this service since it was launched.
“As a local authority, we are committed to increasing our recycling rates, so we would encourage even more people to support us by subscribing as soon as possible.”
Residents can also choose to take out up to three additional subscriptions, each costing £27 plus the cost of the extra bins.
The council says charging for the service is the fairest way as not all homes need it.
The local authority adds the charge also helps reduce the cost of running its overall waste collection service.
Residents who choose not to subscribe can get rid of garden waste for free at the Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) in Burn Road.
But the council says the brown bin collections remain the most convenient way of disposing of it.
For more information about the service and to subscribe go to www.hartlepool.gov.uk/waste-recycling/garden-waste-subscription-service