Green organic bin collection
We offer a free green organic bin service to many residents. You too can help the environment by supporting this scheme.
We only accept organic waste in the special green wheelie bin provided, called a green organic bin. We also provide a small kitchen caddy for you to keep in your kitchen to collect food scraps and peels.
You can help by not putting any plastic bags or biodegrable bin liners in your green organic bin. Even if plastic bags have a recycling triangle or state that they are biodegrable, do not put them in your green organic bin. These bags do not compost quickly enough during our composting process and plastic bags will contaminate our loads and result in your recycling work being sent to landfill instead of being turned into compost.
You should leave your green organic bin out before 7am on the day of your collection in a place which is easy to see and reach, preferably on the edge of your property.
Please do not put your green organic bin on the public highway as members of the pubic may drop litter in your green organic bin and contaminate your hard recycling work. This could result in your green organic bin not being collected or being removed.
Printing your door number clearly on your green organic bin can help to reduce the chance of your green organic bin going missing.
Any excess waste should be taken to our Reuse and Recycling Centre.
We will empty your green organic bin once every week on the day of collection, provided your leave the green organic bin our before 7am in a visiable and accessible place from the public road, preferably on the edge of your property.
If we miss your collection for some reason, we will:
- collect your recycling the same day if we miss it and you let us know by 2pm of your normal collection day, or
- collect your recycling the next day by 12noon if you tell us after 2pm on your collection day.
We will also:
- put your green organic bin back within the boundary of your property
- advertise changes to our collection days in libraries, on our website and in local newspapers and in The Brent Magazine
- make sure our recycling collectors leave the street clean and tidy after collection
- ensure our collectors are polite and considerate
- provide an assisted collection service for residents with special needs, for example residents with mobility issues. Please contact us to arrange a special collection.
To order a new or extra green organic bin please contact us.
Where it is not possible to deliver a green organic bin a garden waste bio-sack service is offered.