The garden waste collection service is available to all residents in Amber Valley except for residents who either have their waste collected in bags or use communal waste facilities.
Before signing up, we ask residents to please read our terms and conditions of the garden waste collection service.
Garden waste will be collected from Monday 24 February 2025 and finish on Friday 28 November 2025.
*Please note that new subscriptions can take up to 15 working days to process, so please keep this in mind when expecting your first collection.
You can view your next collection date, and your full year's calendar, on our bin collection date page.
If you have just signed up for our garden waste service, please allow a couple of days for our systems to update before you check your collection dates.
For garden waste customers who already have a bin, the cost of the collection service is:
New customers who wish to receive the garden waste service will pay:
Customers can order a second garden waste bin for their property and this will cost:
Customers that already have more than one garden waste bin will pay:
The easiest way to pay for your garden waste bin is:
Paying early ensures customers have sufficient time to receive their 2025 tamper-proof bin sticker and any new bin(s) they have ordered. Please note that at busy times it may take up to 15 working days to process requests to join the service.
Therefore, if customers are not signed up 10 days before the start of collections, they may not receive their sticker and/or new bin(s) before their first collection.
Customers can sign up for the garden waste service throughout the collection year. However, the cost of the service will remain at £48 for the year and will not be reduced for late payment.
Any missed garden waste collections due to payments not being received in time will not be refunded.
After paying for the 2025 service, customers will receive a letter from the council that contains their tamper-proof garden waste bin sticker and collection dates.
The 2025 bin sticker must be fixed to the back of the garden waste bin to easily identify the collection fee has been paid.
Residents are asked to ensure that to put their house number directly on their garden waste bin, as well as on the sticker, so the crew can easily identify if a bin needs to be emptied.
Customers can also use the bin collection dates page to find out when their garden waste bin will be emptied.
The garden waste bin collection dates are also written on the back of the letter containing the 2025 sticker.
Customers should check the service disruptions page to find out if there are any unexpected changes to their collections as well as keep their letter which lists the planned dates for garden waste collections
If you are an existing customer and you do not wish to receive the garden waste service in 2025, please note that the council does not intend to remove your garden waste bin.
If you do not wish to use the garden waste service and would prefer to compost at home, you can purchase a discounted compost bin through the scheme run by Derbyshire County Council.
Participating in the garden waste service is beneficial to the environment and residents too! The service assists residents to get rid of their garden waste throughout the growing season.
Your garden waste is taken to a site in Derbyshire for composting. Using specialist equipment a waste contractor shreds and grades the garden waste. The shredded garden waste is then shaped into windrows to rot down to produce compost. At the end of the decomposition process the final product is a compost / soil improver that is re-used instead of being disposed of in a landfill site.
Each year, residents in Amber Valley help the council collect the below tonnage of garden waste, this information can also be viewed on a chart.
| Year | Tonnage of garden waste collected |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4903.6 |
| 2023 | 5415.44 |
| 2022 | 4805.94 |
| 2021 | 4020.52 |
| 2020 | 4607.22 |
| 2019 | 4910.14 |
| 2018 | 4312.28 |
| 2017 | 4613.60 |
| 2016 | 4266.72 |
| 2015 | 4137.22 |
| 2014 | 4312.16 |
| 2013 | 3774.53 |
| 2012 | 1596.36 |
| 2011 | 1424.81 |
| 2010 | 1319.50 |
| 2009 | 1141.91 |
Thank you for supporting this service!
Contact the team directly on 01773 841326 or email refuse@ambervalley.gov.uk
