WARRINGTON’S green waste subscriptions for the coming year has launched – allowing people to buy their licences to have their garden waste collected by the borough council.
For 2025, the licences will cost slightly more, with a £1.50 annual rise. They will now be £47.50 if bought at Contact Warrington or over the phone or £43.50 online. The face-to-face and telephone options are more expensive, due to the higher costs of operating and staffing these channels.
Any resident who wishes to benefit from the online saving, but is unable to use the internet and can’t access help from friends and family, can get support to subscribe online and free internet access at The Gateway on Sankey Street, at Contact Warrington in the council’s 1 Time Square office or at any of LiveWire’s libraries.
They will need to buy a new licence to benefit from the first round of collections, which starts on March 4. The collections will then run throughout the year until 5 December 2025.
You can also pay for more than one green bin registered to your property. If you don’t want to subscribe to the service, you can compost your garden waste at home or take it to one of our community recycling centres.
Cabinet member for Housing Services and Licensing, Cllr John Kerr-Brown, said: “Our green waste collection service continues to be a popular and convenient choice for residents, and also helps us recycle thousands of tonnes of garden waste every year.
“While we always seek to keep charges down, a year-on-year increase in our operating costs means that, unfortunately, this small increase is necessary again this year.
“However, with the small increase we are able to continue delivering a service which makes a real difference, allowing all of us to do our bit to recycle right, reduce our carbon footprint and tackle the climate emergency.”
For more information about the garden waste service, to order your licence for 2025, and for full terms and conditions, visit: warrington.gov.uk/gardenwaste
4 Comments
Incorrect. The increase is £4.50 a year. Up from £39 for this year to £43.50 for 2025. That’s 11.5%. All this will result in is fewer subscriptions and more fly-tripping. This council continues to prove its incompetence.
And obvious financial shortcomings. If they can’t do simple arithmetical calculations, little wonder they are in such a mess with their loans and investments.
Haggis is correct .The charge last year was £39 . Considering this only covers 9 months it is getting quite expensive .
Once again WBC taking advantage of their residents