Garden waste recycling service

Contents

• Overview
• Subscribe to the service
• Home composting and alternatives

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Home composting and alternatives

If you choose not to subscribe to the scheme, you can dispose of your garden waste by:

• home composting
• taking it to a household waste recycling centre

You should not put garden waste in your black household waste bin or silver recycling bin. We will not empty black or silver bins which contain garden waste. 

Food waste

We encourage you to reduce, reuse and recycle your food waste as much as possible so that less waste needs to be disposed of, and this includes trying home composting.

If home composting isn’t possible, you can put food waste into your black bin – we hope that this will be a temporary measure.

We are awaiting the outcome of central government proposals which may mean that all councils need to provide a separate food waste collection service to all properties.

What to do with your garden bin if you don't subscribe 

If you don't subscribe to the garden waste recycling scheme, you should keep your garden bin at your property as it is assigned to the property and not a person. Bins will not be taken away by the council.

You will be able to subscribe to the scheme at any time throughout the year.

Christmas Tree Recycling

Following on from the popularity in previous years of this eco-friendly fundraising scheme in aid of local Scouts, we will again be recycling used natural Christmas trees. On Saturday 4 January 2025, the 1 SWC St Andrews Scouts will be collecting trees for recycling from addresses in:

• Gresty
• Hough
• Shavington
• Weston
• Willaston
• Wistaston
• Wybunbury
• and all CW2 postcodes in Crewe

We can collect your tree for a minimum donation of £6 going towards local Scout funds. If you would like us to collect and recycle your Christmas tree, then please book your collection online by visiting recyclemyxmastree.com.

For any other enquiries, contact Alison Corless on: recyclemyxmastree@gmail.com or call/ text 07786 914353.

• Christmas Tree Recycling - Scouts Advert (PDF, 210KB)

East Cheshire Hospice collecting Christmas trees for 25 years

On the 11th and 12th of January, a dedicated team of volunteers will be out across the community, collecting and recycling Christmas trees to raise essential funds for East Cheshire Hospice. Register your tree today and help make their 25th year extra special!

They collect natural Christmas trees from postcode areas: CW12, SK9, SK10, SK11, SK12, and WA16.

If you’re using an artificial tree but still want to support the East Cheshire Hospice, visit their Christmas Tree collection donation page.