Garden Waste Clearance Swindon

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Garden Waste Clearance for Swindon

Swindon Borough Council gives residents three ways to deal with garden waste. You can compost it at home. You can pay for a fortnightly collection. Or you can take it to the borough's household recycling centre, at Waterside Park on the Cheney Manor Industrial Estate. Garden waste is free there, but every visit must be booked in a 20-minute slot and the site is shut on Wednesdays. Those routes suit regular mowing and pruning. They suit a full clearance far less well. A green bin holds 240 litres. Soil, rubble and logs thicker than a wrist are barred from it, and the tip no longer accepts trade customers. Here are the details from the council's pages, so you can tell which jobs you can manage and which need a garden waste clearance.

A garden waste subscription runs from 1 April to 31 March and includes 25 collections. There is a two-week break over Christmas. Subscribers get one 240 litre green bin, or three reusable bags where a bin cannot be stored safely. Delivery can take up to 20 working days, and the first collection is on the next garden waste day after that. Put the bin or bags at the nearest point to the road by 6am, with the waste loose. Anything on top of or beside the bin is left behind.

What goes in matters. Flowers, grass, leaves, hedge trimmings and twigs up to wrist thickness are fine. Earth, soil, rubble, stones, treated wood and plant pots are not. Nor are noxious weeds such as Japanese knotweed and rhododendron.

Waterside Park, Darby Close, SN2 2PN, takes garden waste free. Slots run every 20 minutes from 8am, and the last one starts at 4pm. Arrive 5 to 10 minutes early, because a missed slot means booking again. Each vehicle may carry two people at most, and nobody will help you unload. Before your booking is confirmed, you sign a declaration that the waste is from your own home. The site no longer accepts commercial or trade customers, tipper vans or double-axle trailers.