Leeds residents given final brown bin collection dates ahead of winter break

The final round of brown bin garden waste collections for the year will start in Leeds next week.

Leeds City Council delivers the largest garden waste collection service of any council in the UK, collecting more than 31,000 tonnes of garden waste from 220,000 households across the city each year.

The authority is also developing plans to expand the service to even more households in the future.

However, because demand for garden waste disposal drops significantly during the colder months, brown bin collections are paused each winter.

This year, the final round of collections starts next week, on Monday, November 16, with the last scheduled collection day on Saturday, November 28.

Residents can visit Leeds City Council’s website to check their final collection date. Reminders can also be sent directly to smartphones through the Leeds Bins app.

While collections are paused, garden waste can still be taken to any of the council’s eight household waste recycling centres for free.

Sites are open seven days a week, from 8am to 4pm. Residents can find their nearest recycling centre on the council’s website.

Councillor James Gibson, Leeds City Council’s executive member for environment, said: “As winter is now approaching we will be stopping the garden waste collections from the end of November, so if your household gets a garden waste collection please remember to put the bin out for the final time if it needs emptying.

“If any residents have garden waste to be disposed of while the service is on its break through the winter, it can be taken to any of our household waste recycling centres and disposed of easily there for free.

“For households in the Wetherby area who are part of the comingled food and garden waste collection trial, collections will continue throughout winter.”