County council reminds residents to sign up for garden waste service

Denbighshire’s garden waste subscription service will reopen to residents tomorrow Monday, March 3 with a revised payment structure which comes into effect from April 1. 

Following a temporary suspension of the subscription process earlier this year to allow for an essential upgrade, subscriptions will be available again from 8am on Monday.

 

The council is encouraging residents who are subscribing for the first time to do this in good time to ensure their container can be delivered in time for April 1 and to take full advantage of the 12-month service.

 

Those residents who have an existing subscription which extends beyond April 1 will only pay a proportion of the 12-month subscription fee - from their renewal date to March 31 2026.

 

The revised subscription service will run for a 12-month period from April 1 to March 31 each year with online subscriptions costing £45 this year. 

There is an additional £5 administration cost for subscription requests via the contact centre or the council’s One-Stop-Shops. Subscription fees are reviewed each year in line with inflation rates. Thereafter, from April 1 2026, all renewals, subscriptions, and upgrades will run in line with the financial year.

 

Denbighshire offers the two-weekly service as an optional and cost-effective way of recycling garden waste. With 26 collections per year, this equates to roughly £1.74 per collection. The subscription charge is necessary in order for the council to deliver this non-statutory service.

 

Councillor Barry Mellor, Lead Member for Environment and Transport, said: “Ahead of the rollout of the new garden waste subscription service, I would like to remind residents who want to sign up to do so at their earliest convenience to account for the delivery time of any new bins and to take advantage of the full 12-month service.

 

“We recognise that some residents experienced an interruption to their garden waste service during 2024, and as a gesture of goodwill the council will hold last year’s price for those affected residents for the 2025/26 period.”

 

Residents can check whether they have a live subscription on the bin collection dates page of the council’s website on www.denbighshire.gov.uk/bin-collection-dates