Keep your green waste load clean and keep the price down

The single biggest thing you control on a green waste price is how clean the load is. A clean garden load goes to an organics facility at a lower gate fee. A contaminated one can be charged as general waste or turned away at the gate, and either way you pay for it.

Keep soil and turf out. They are heavy, they are not organics, and a load full of dirt costs more to cart and cannot be composted the same way. Shake the soil off roots where you can and leave it in the garden.

Keep treated timber separate. Painted, stained, treated or engineered timber carries chemicals, nails and glue that ruin a compost stream. It needs its own disposal, so stack it away from the green pile.

Keep the obvious rubbish out. Plastic pots, plant labels, bags, wire, hose offcuts and general household rubbish all count as contamination. A single bag of rubbish buried in a green load can reclassify the whole load.

Sort as you cut. The easiest way to keep a load clean is to make two piles while you work: one for clean garden organics and one for everything else. It takes no extra time and it protects your quote.

Green Waste Removal Near Me connects you with operators who take clean green waste for composting and mulching. Tell us what is in the pile and we send you local numbers, free.