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Garden

There are a range of services to help you maintain your home and garden. From gardening services to waste collections there are lots of options and information available.

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Brown bin

If you are struggling to put your bins out for collection Leeds City Council can provide support. This service helps frail, elderly, disabled or incapacitated persons where there are no able-bodied residents to present the wheeled bin to the kerbside.

Request or cancel an assisted waste collection

Find out your collection date for individual waste and recycling bins.

Check your bin day online

Find out what you can put in each of the bins in Leeds

Yes please

flowers and plants

grass cuttings

hedge clippings

leaves

twigs and small branches (no more than 3cm thick)

windfall fruit

Please put these into your bin loose and do not use any plastic bags.

No thanks

branches over 3cm thick

food waste, including fruit and vegetable peelings

Giant Hogweed

Himalyan Balsam

Japanese knotweed

pet bedding, pet waste or cat litter

plastic of any kind, including compostable and biodegradable plastics

Ragwort

rubble

soil or compost

Find out what to do with the things that cannot go in your brown bin.

A to Z of reusing, recycling and waste disposal

Reduce your garden waste by composting at home

You can compost most types of garden waste at home.

Find more information on composting

If you do not have a brown bin you can book a garden waste collection online