Garden waste collections begin

Warrington’s garden waste collections for 2025 begin this week – so if you haven’t yet subscribed, now’s the time to do it.

The council offers a green bin collection service for grass, flowers, plants, leaves, clippings, cuttings, weeds and other garden waste.
You can take out an annual subscription and your green bin will be emptied every two weeks. If you don’t subscribe, your green bin can’t be emptied by the council’s crews.
The collections will run throughout the year until 5 December 2025.
The cost of a green bin collection licence is £43.50 online or £47.50 if bought at Contact Warrington or over the phone. The face-to-face and telephone options are more expensive, due to the higher costs of operating and staffing these channels.

If you are a resident who wishes to benefit from the online saving but are unable to use the internet and can’t access help from friends and family, you 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 library.
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: “With our 2025 green bin collections now beginning, we encourage residents who haven’t yet signed up to join the many thousands already benefiting from this convenient and popular service.
“It’s a simple way to manage your garden waste while contributing to a greener Warrington. By subscribing to the service, you’ll help us recycle tonnes of garden waste annually, reducing our collective carbon footprint and making a real difference in tackling 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