It comes as part of a new scheme announced this month, which will allow residents to extend the garden waste service offered in the spring and summer months.
Between April and October, the council offer free seasonal collections, where it collects around 11,000 tonnes of garden waste.
Jenny Grant, head of organics and natural capital at the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA), welcomed the move, stating that anything a council implements that will see green waste delivered to organics sites is a good step.
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Want to extend your brown bin collections?
🍁 For a one-off charge of £15 per bin per season, you will be able to extend your collections from November-March.
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Residents who continue to accumulate garden waste through the winter months, however, have previously had to take it to household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) or compost it at home.
Now, the council is offering to extend garden waste collections from October to April 2022 for a one of charge of £15 per household. This equals to about £1.40 per collection.
Residents can sign up to receive collections from November to the date ‘normal’ collections start again in April.
They can subscribe to the service at any point during the year, but the cost will remain the same, and collections will only be made from residents who currently have a brown bin.
Stoke-on-Trent operate with an in-house waste collection crew and reported a 34.8% recycling rate in 2019/20.
Small charge
Councillor Carl Edwards, cabinet member for Housing and Environment said: “Around 94,000 households in the city have a brown bin, and whilst it isn’t a statutory service for the council to remove garden waste – we know how much this means to our residents.
“We have received requests to extend the service to include the winter months, but to do that, we have to make a small charge to cover the costs of collecting and disposing of the waste. More than half the councils across the country now make a charge for all brown bin collections – but we will continue to offer this service at no cost during the growing season.”
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