Garden Waste

 

Garden Waste

Garden waste can be taken to the Recycling Centres, added to the brown-lidded kerbside bin if available or composted at home.

Why Collect Garden Waste for Composting?

When garden waste is landfilled, it decomposes slowly without oxygen. When this waste rots away, the greenhouse gas methane is produced contributing to global warming. The rotting garden waste also produces a liquid known as leachate which, if not properly controlled, can pollute the environment.

Composting garden waste reduces landfill and produces usable compost, which returns valuable nutrients to the soil for new plant growth.

Why Compost at Home?

You can reduce the need to buy compost by setting up a compost bin in your garden. It is relatively easy to do, and saves pollution that would otherwise be created by transporting this heavy waste.

What Happens to the Collected Garden Waste?

The Garden Waste collected by Perth & Kinross Council from the kerbside and the Recycling Centres is transported to a local composting facility. The composting process breaks down the garden waste and making it into nutrient-rich compost.  

The compost is mainly used in landscaping and is available for free to all householders in Perth & Kinross at the Recycling Centres. Each visitor can collect a maximum of 2 x 25 kg bags of compost.