Households that pay to receive the Isle of Wight Council’s Green Garden Waste collection service can renew their subscription from today (Tuesday).
Subscribing to the garden waste service allows for materials like leaves, flowers, grassing cuttings, roots, hedge clipping, weeds and brambles to be collected from your kerbside.
This optional fortnightly scheme lets customers sign up online for a 240-litre wheeled bin or three reusable hessian sacks to be picked up from the kerbside for a total cost of £102 per year, working out at £8.50 a month.
The service operates from 1st April 2026 to 31st March 2027.
For more information on your subscription and how to renew, visit www.iow.gov.uk/gardenwastesubscriptions.
The renewal window opens at 08:00 on 13th January for those already on the scheme and closes on 10th March, with the service opening to new subscribers from 10th February.
If you currently pay by direct debit, this should automatically renew, and you will have received an email confirming your payment details for 2026. To double check payment details are up to date visit www.iow.gov.uk/gardenwastesubscriptions.
If you pay annually by card, you will also have been sent an email with details on how to re-subscribe, so please check your emails, including your junk folder.
The scheme allows customers to subscribe online for a 240-litre wheeled bin or three reusable hessian sacks to be picked up from the kerbside for a total cost of £102 per year, working out at £8.50 a month.
Those who wish to cancel their direct debit service need to do so by 17:00 on 3rd March.
Garden waste collected at the kerbside then goes to a composting site where it is turned into a nutritious soil conditioner, improving the soil’s structure to help plants grow.
Councillor Karen Lucioni, Chair of the Environment and Community Protection Committee, said:
“Once again in 2026, we will come to you and continue to make your gardening life easier. You won’t have to put heavy and wet garden waste in your car boot.”
“Now is the time to re-subscribe for your garden waste service so it can be picked up from your doorstep, and means no more trips the tip with bugs and spiders in your car; and the bins are definitely much easier for brambles and rose bushes – much fewer scratches.”
Natasha Dix, service director for waste, environment and planning, said:
“The garden waste scheme we run is extremely popular, and we are reminding our current customers to make sure they renew annual subscriptions to reserve their space for this year.
“The garden waste collected by the council is composted locally on the Island and this contributes to our 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.
“New customers will also be accepted from 10th February.”
The council will accept garden waste such as grass cuttings, leaves and sticks. Please no logs, rubble or soil. The garden waste subscription also includes a free Christmas tree collection service in January.
If you are planning on signing up for the first time, new subscribers are being accepted from 10th February 2026. For full details on the service visit https://www.iow.gov.uk/greengardenwaste
Be aware there was a data breach on this scheme recently.
All email addresses were circulated.
Also be aware that this scheme, like many across the country, can’t identify the green waste that has been treated by chemicals which then goes into the ‘nutritious soil conditioner’. One such chemical is aminopyralids, a broad leaved hormonal herbicide which is ONLY broken down after a few years of sunlight and rain. Dug in, it will quickly kill most plants, with the exception of brassicas. IF you’ve bought the resulting compost, do a quick test with some baby broad bean plants planted into it in pots….if it’s present they will begin to turn their toes up within a couple of weeks. DON’T put the dead or it’s compost back into the waste because it will go round again. Burn the plants and leave the compost to fallow for a couple of years.
Better still…if you like gardening and care about plants….don’t use herbicides, hand weed instead.
No shit Sherlock!
I don’t understand how, on the Island, the Annual Green Collection fee is so high; £102. In Northampton, it is £60, with the Brown Bin emptied into a refuse truck fortnightly.
I can see why many may go and tip their green waste into a verge while no one is looking. Or, tip it into someone else’s bin.
My thoughts exactly.
The island council takes the piss, like most things
on the island everything is too expensive.
I was at my sons on Sunday in the big smoke.
Fuel only £1.30 a litre and decent coffees much
cheaper than the dishwater many locations are
serving up on the island.
Also FREE, yes free toilets.
It’s about time the council realised why many people
have stopped visiting the island, everything is too expensive.
If it wasn’t for Wetherspoons, where is there good value
on the island!
Who else serves a pint of Worthingtons cream flow for
99p. Yes 99 pence.
If IW Council weren’t the most expensive in the country for
such services, maybe more households would have them.
Personally I believe they should be free of charge, the council
gets enough council tax money from households each year
and that goes up by at least 5%
I know they have a big pension pot to pay into, but £102.00
a year is taking the piss.
The only households who gain are those on benefits,
they pay F All, so personally I will give this a miss.
Garden mulch is good for the garden.
Also no risk of GDPR with garden mulch, safer for
everyone.
“Garden mulch is good for the garden”
So is sunshine.
If only we could bury sunshine along with mulch.
Maybe one day with all the modern technology.
Lol
£102 for a maximum 26 collections works out at about £4 per collection IF you use your bin all year round.
If you only use it half to three quarters a year it is very poor value.
Anyone willing to pay such a ridiculous fee could always share
with a neighbour.
Miliband blouts on about net zero and all that fake
crap.
If they were REALLY concerned about the climate,
why keep issuing bins made of PLASTIC!.
I read recently that households in Britain will be getting an
extra PLASTIC bin for recycling.
Bring back the good old days, iron metal bins and glass milk
bottles rather than PLASTIC bottles.
We done a better job in the 60s and 70s than we are nowdays.