Brown Bin Scheme

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Brown Bin Food & Garden Waste Collection Service

Find out your brown bin collection dates using the Bin Collection Dates Form

Food Waste

New Food & Garden Waste Collection Service

A picture of a garden Tameside Council have introduced a Brown Bin service for the collection of food and garden waste to your area. This service will make it easy for you to dispose of your food and garden waste with the convenience of a fortnightly kerbside collection. Properties in Tameside have been supplied with a brown wheelie bin.

Join the Scheme

If you have not yet received a bin but would like one, please contact us using the details at the bottom of this page. Kerbside collections will take place every other week. Please leave your bin out from 7.00am on the day of collection. View the Brown Bin Collection Dates.

Use this form to order a new brown bin.

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The material collected in the Brown Bin Scheme will still be composted.

Its going through a process called In-vessel composting.

In-Vessel composting is an Industrial process of composting that is undertaken in a controlled enclosed environment usually in tanks or containers.

Air, temperature, humidity and gases generated are all measured to optimise the composting process.

All this enables us to collect food waste and send it to be composted.

The End product is used as a soil improver and used as compost.

By agreeing to take part in our scheme you will be helping to increase the borough's recycling rate and be doing your bit for the environment.

If you do not wish to take part in the brown bin scheme, you may also want to consider purchasing a home composter for use on your own garden. Home composter bins can also be used in addition to your brown bin to compost fruit and vegetable waste.