Don’t forget to subscribe or renew for council’s garden waste scheme

Residents are being reminded to renew or sign up for the first time to Cheshire East Council’s Garden Waste Recycling Scheme.

It is just a handful of weeks now until the new 2025 service starts on 20 January. Garden waste collections for current-year subscribers will finish on Friday 20th December.

Residents need to opt-in to the new scheme to use their garden bin to recycle their green waste and will pay an annual subscription fee for their bin to be collected.

If you signed up to the council’s Garden Waste Recycling Scheme for 2024, you will now need to renew your subscription. Subscriptions are £59 per garden bin per year, with a 25 per cent reduction in the fee available for those receiving qualifying benefits.

Once subscribed, residents will be sent a welcome pack containing their subscription sticker, which will have their address and unique subscription number on it.

Residents are urged to attach the new coloured sticker to the back of their garden bin (handle side) as soon as they receive it – but not obscuring any current subscription sticker – as garden bins without a valid sticker displaying will not be emptied.

Providing that their email address is still the same, residents who subscribed to the service last year will receive a resubscribe email, enabling them to simply click the link to renew. 

Councillor Mick Warren, chair of Cheshire East Council’s environment and communities committee, said:

“I would like to thank everyone who has already signed up and remind them that they will need to renew their subscription to continue to enjoy an unbroken service from January 2025. I’d really recommend doing it now, before the Christmas festivities overtake you, so you can enjoy the peace of mind of knowing it’s all in hand. 

“We had almost 100,000 subscribers to our garden waste collections last year, and I’m very confident they’ll want to renew, with hopefully more residents opting to join the scheme as well. I hope that residents understand that the very slight charge increase is needed to help the council address the gap in its finances.” 

To join the garden waste subscription scheme or to renew your current subscription, please visit: 

subscriptions webpage.

Residents not able to sign up online can contact the council on:

0300 123 5011

Visit our bins webpage for: 

information about changes to bin collections over the festive period