Make the most of final collections

With autumn leaves falling and gardening jobs coming to an end, we’re reminding customers that there are just three weeks’ worth of collections left for Bassetlaw District Council’s popular garden waste collection service in 2025. 

Residents will start to receive their final collections from 17 November 2025, with the season coming to an end on 28 November 2025. 

So far this year, the Council’s Garden Waste Service has helped over 15,000 residents collect and recycle their garden waste. Between March and August, a total of 4,059 tonnes of garden waste was collected. That’s a huge amount of waste that has been recycled instead of being included in general waste collections or disposed of in other ways, and there’s still three weeks of the service remaining. 

Cllr Darrell Pulk, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods at Bassetlaw District Council said: “Our garden waste collection service has grown again since last year, and it’s great to see more and more people becoming interested in recycling their waste.  

“We thank each of our subscribed residents for disposing of their waste responsibly and hope to see even more people join the service next year and enjoy the convenience of having their garden waste collected from the kerbside.”   

Next year’s service will begin on Monday 23 February 2026, with residents able to sign up or renew their subscriptions from Monday 1 December 2025.  

Next year’s subscription has increased slightly to £45 due to the increased costs of providing the garden waste service, and so more investment can be made to improve the service. 

In 2026, residents will not need to put a licence sticker on their brown garden waste bins due to in-cab technology in the refuse collection vehicles that will identify which properties have subscribed to our Garden Waste Service.  

Each subscription includes a 240-litre wheelie which can be used for collecting grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, leaves, small branches and twigs, dead plants, weeds and flowers. Residents are advised to occasionally break up their waste once it is in the bin, to prevent it from becoming compacted and risk damaging the bin during collections.