Household waste - brown bins

Brown Bins:
  • Brown BinBrown bins are used for cardboard and compostable garden waste  
  • They are collected once a fortnight and the contents are composted - made into PAS 100 certified Castle Compost
  • Castle Compost can be collected free of charge by residents from any of our 3 Household Waste Recycling Centres

Please do not put any plastic items or bags in your brown bin.  This includes plastic plant pots, hoses, rope, plastic packaging or sacks of mixed waste.   They don't compost very well.  In fact, they don't compost at all.  Neither do glass bottles, duvets, toilet seats or carpeting, which some people insist on putting in their brown bins.  

These items contaminate the materials sent for composting  If the collection crew finds contaminants in your brown bin, the bin will not be emptied until all contamination is removed.

For more information on deliberate brown bin contamination, please see our Enforcement pages.

YES PLEASE:Green Tick

  • All cardboard (including packaging such as cereal and soap powder boxes, boxes for tea bags, tissues etc., card sleeves from ready-made meals and inners from toilet rolls).  Please remove all tape, staples and inner contents.  NB: Polystyrene packaging is not compostable.  Please remember to remove polystyrene packaging from cardboard boxes
  • Flowers & Plants
  • Garden Prunings
  • Garden Weeds
  • Grass Clippings
  • Hedge Trimmings
  • Leaves
  • Wood Shavings
  • Yellow Pages
  • Christmas Trees - cut up and placed fully inside the bin with the lid closed

NO THANKS!Cross

  • Building Wood
  • Fencing
  • Glass or Metal
  • Nappies
  • Plant Pots
  • Plastics (incl. plastic bags/bin liners)
  • Mixed Household Waste