What do you do with your garden waste which cannot go into the garden recycling brown bin?

[trinidad]

Hello all,

For those whom are lucky enough to have a garden in ED, now is the time we are using these spaces more and more. Gardens often generate waste which can not simply go into the brown recycling wheelie bin. What do residents do when they are faced with un - recyclable garden waste?

[Sue]

What sort of waste are you talking about?

Surely anything which isn't recyclable would go to landfill in the green bin?

[trinidad]

old soil for example.

[Sally Eva]

soil doesn't really wear out. Where has it come from?

[trinidad]

several years old, extremely dry, more like grit than freshly purchase soil from the garden centre.

[IlonaM]

Revive your soil: https://soiltosupper.com/simple-ways-to-fix-dry-garden-soil/

[trinidad]

Thanks, but i am really uninterested in reviving the soil. As mentioned in the first question, i want to get rid of it, amoungst other things. I was wondering what other gardeners do?

[gedwina]

Hippo Sack - https://www.hippowaste.co.uk/hippobag/

[Gadge]

If it's a small amount, bag it and put it in your green bin which goes to landfill. If a larger amount bag it and take to the Southwark recycle centre located on the Old Kent Road.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Or advertise it free on this forum. Someone will want it.

[Sue]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Or advertise it free on this forum. Someone will

> want it

They probably won't if it's "more like grit" :)

[womanofdulwich]

Maybe you need to do what they did in the Great escape? walk to the park, discreetly undo secret pockets, deposit soil in flower bed everyday for a few weeks??

[FightingFit]

womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> Maybe you need to do what they did in the Great

> escape? walk to the park, discreetly undo secret

> pockets, deposit soil in flower bed everyday for

> a few weeks??

Perfect! Excellent soilution

[trinidad]

womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> Maybe you need to do what they did in the Great

> escape? walk to the park, discreetly undo secret

> pockets, deposit soil in flower bed everyday for

> a few weeks??

This wont work for me at all

[Sue]

:)) :)) :))

[Huggers]

Large brown paper bags for garden waste available from library, leave outside front on any bin day.

[Sue]

Huggers Wrote:

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> Large brown paper bags for garden waste available

> from library, leave outside front on any bin day.

You aren't allowed to put soil in them though .....

[Michael Palaeologus]

Is there a ban on soil in green bins? If not, put it in your green bin.

[hpsaucey]

Same issue. Would bulk collection take it? They have a category of ?sack of household waste? but bit unclear.

HP

[daveybigpotatoes]

Gadge Wrote:

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> If it's a small amount, bag it and put it in your

> green bin which goes to landfill. If a larger

> amount bag it and take to the Southwark recycle

> centre located on the Old Kent Road.

Virtually no waste goes to landfill these days. Green bin waste in Southwark is sorted into recyclates or material used for fuel.