Households that pay to receive the Isle of Wight Council’s Green Garden Waste collection service will soon be able to renew their subscription.
Current customers are being given priority to renew their garden waste subscription which runs from 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024. Renewals will be available from 16th January 2023.
The optional fortnightly scheme lets customers subscribe online for a 240-litre wheeled bin or 3 reusable hessian sacks to be picked up from the kerbside for a total cost of £96 per year, working out at £8 a month.
If you pay by direct debit, the subscription should automatically renew, and you will receive an email confirming your payment details for 2023. Islanders should double check their payment details are up to date at www.iow.gov.uk/gardenwastesubscriptions.
If you pay annually by card, you’ll shortly receive an email with details on how to re-subscribe.
Councillor Karen Lucioni, Cabinet lead for waste said:
“Let us come to you and continue to make your gardening life easier by re-subscribing for your garden waste collection this year.
“It will be picked up from your doorstep, and it takes the hassle out of driving to the tip. You also won’t have to put heavy and wet garden waste in your car boot.”
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Strategic manager for environment, Natasha Dix, said:
“Our garden waste scheme is popular, and we are reminding our current customers to make sure they renew annual subscriptions to reserve their space for this year.
“All garden waste that is collected by the council is composted locally here on the Island; in the last year we have recycled a massive 4005 tons— all of this contributes to the Islands national recycling targets.
“Our garden waste service is a ‘one-stop shop’ meaning you do not have to call for collection each time and we will be there come rain or shine.
“We will also be accepting new customers from 23 February.”
The council will accept garden waste such as grass cuttings, leaves and sticks. However, households are not able to use this service for logs, rubble or soil. The garden waste subscription also includes a free Christmas tree collection service in January.
For more information on your subscription and how to renew, visit www.iow.gov.uk/gardenwastesubscriptions.
If you are planning on signing up for the first time, new subscribers are being accepted from 23rd February 2023. For full details on the service visit https://www.iow.gov.uk/greengardenwaste.
Renewals will be available from 16th January – so send out the reminder emails then so that I can move straight from the reminder to actually doing it. Job done! Reminders sent out last week, now I have to remember to do it. Why can’t they make it easy for the customer?
Their mistake is in assuming that you have a brain?
Another stealth tax, should be part of the excessive Council Tax charge.
Go to the tip and you will see how many have returned their garden waste bins. There are loads of them I wonder why
People are waking up to Government stealth taxes.
The £96.00 saving will help towards excessive Energy bills.
What ever happened to natural mulch.
WHY….WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH HAVING A BONFIRE AFTER 6pm.
IT IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW…… # nanny state.com
Grow a pear…..spelling mistake alert !
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£96 per year; what a rip-off.
In Northamptonshire, the annual cost for collecting green waste fortnightly is £42. But £96 is extortionate, especially with rises in energy and food costs. I thought £42 was excessive; why do we pay Council Tax?
Isle of Wight Council, how can you justify charging residents £96 when other counties are charging half?
Council Tax on the Island is one of the highest in the country.
Also what Council charges people 24/7 – 7 days a week to park their vehicles
Along Seafronts- answer is IW Council
Even Pompey ain’t that vile.
Canceled mine its bot worth £96
Worked out with fuel over 12 trips to the tip it will cost me no more than £15
For a decent size garden worth every penny.
For smaller, halve the cost by sharing with a Neighbour. Two weeks for one and then two weeks with the other.
What if your neighbour is a t**t!
He probably thinks your a t**t!
My neighbours are all t**ts.
Anybody with a personnel number plate is a complete t**t IMO…..lol.
Personal plates are just for idiots who think they are better than anyone else.
Yes not so popular since they put up the cost, so dont all rush to get your bin hundreds going spare at the tip. Mine still in my garden they couldn’t collect it as no room for it!. Common sense would be to lower the price for more interest. Think there’s a lack of that at the Council. Pay for it to be taken away then pay for it back again as compost for your garden???.