Garden Waste Collection

Free Christmas tree collections, 9-20 January:

If you live in Gosport and would like your real tree collected from outside your house for free and sent for composting, then you should put it out for collection, in a location visible from the road, by 7am on your regular garden waste collection day which falls between 9-20 January.  It must be in one piece and have all decorations removed.

To find out your collection day please view the map below. For more information please contact Streetscene.

About the service:

To meet the needs of local residents, the Council can collect and dispose of green sacks containing garden waste including:-

• Grass cuttings

• Shrub cuttings

• Leaf fall

• Exhausted bedding plants; and

• Unwanted weed growth.

Garden waste collected is used for composting purposes and not disposed of along with your domestic waste. Composting tonnages contribute towards Gosport's overall recycling rate - for this reason green garden sacks which contain black sacks, are too heavy to lift or contain any other item not listed above, will not be collected. Please do not include food waste or soil. The weight limit for your green sack is 13kg - this equates to approximately half a sack of potatoes.  

The Council introduced a chargeable kerbside garden waste collection service during 1992 in order to help those residents who are unable to transport green waste to the household waste recycling centre.  Under the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992, garden waste is classified under Schedule 2 (Regulation 4), as a type of waste for which a charge may be made. 

How to take part:

Special large, strong green plastic sacks identified with the Council logo must be purchased. From April 2009 these are charged at £1.10 per sack for OAP’s and £1.50 per sack for other residents.

Once filled the sack must be made visible and available at the front of the property on the nominated collection day, by 7.00am. Please pull the draw string closed when you present your sack for collection. Simply locate your home on the map below then check the index for the appropriate collection day. 

Where to buy sacks:

Sacks can be purchased from the Town Hall, High Street, Gosport, between Monday and Friday, 9am until 5pm.

Should a resident be unable to visit the Town Hall and receives assistance with the normal domestic waste collection service a home delivery can be arranged by contacting the Streetscene Section.  A minimum order of 5 green sacks is required for home delivery, if possible, with payment prior to supply.

Sacks are also sold at Gosport Tourist Information Centre (TIC), South Street, Gosport which is open on Saturdays all year round, and on Sundays between March and October. For more information on the TIC please click here.

After a successful trial period, green sacks will now also be sold at the Lee on the Solent BOOST Events in the Methodist Church in Lee High Street, once a month, March to October, as this location has proved to be popular with local residents. Staff will attend these events for the first hour, 9.30-10.30am only; however sacks will be available at any BOOST event throughout the year when a member of staff from Gosport Tourist Information Centre is in attendance.   

Sacks can also sometimes be purchased on a weekend day when the Recycling Team is in attendance at local events. Please check with Streetscene the week before for confirmation. 

Click here for the Recycling Team's events page.

Problem with collection?

If your sack has been placed out for collection by 7.00 am but not removed on the nominated day, please contact the Streetscene Section within the following 24 hours.  Providing the collection contractor has not listed any reason for non collection, a request will made for them to return and remove the green sack within 24 hours.

Contact us:

Streetscene can be contacted by:

Tel: 08000 198 598

Email: recycling@gosport.gov.uk

Post: Streetscene, Gosport Borough Council, Town Hall, Gosport. PO12 1EB.

GARDEN WASTE COLLECTION DATES

Notes:

Priddy's Hard is now collection area 4 - collected on a Thursday.

Christmas and New Year 2011-12 - there will be no garden waste collections Monday 26 December 2011 to Friday 6 January 2012 (inclusive). Your real Christmas tree will be collected free of charge when you put it out on your garden waste collection day, 9-20 January 2012. Please contact Streetscene for more details.

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