Let's Talk Budget 25/26 - Waste Proposal

Stockport Council provides a weekly garden and food waste collection service to around 100,000 residential properties with a green wheeled bin.   

Garden waste such as grass cuttings, tree and shrub pruning, dead flowers and weeds are collected free of charge every week in the green bin alongside food waste. Councils are not required to provide residents with a collection of garden waste and many councils that do provide this service charge for it. 

We recognise this is a service that is valued by residents with gardens and so we are keen to carry on providing it. However, with pressure on council budgets we are proposing to make changes to our waste collection services. 

We are proposing to introduce a yearly charge for residents that want their garden waste collecting and to change the frequency of the blue bin collections. 

This means that residents will have the following options: 

a) A free, weekly, food-only collection or  

b) a paid for weekly garden waste collection and a free weekly food collection (residents can choose to include their food waste with the garden bin if they prefer to having two separate bins; or a bin and a caddy) 

The frequency of the blue bin collection will also change from fortnightly to four-weekly. 

We would like your views on this proposal and the proposed changes. 

More information about the proposal is outlined within the questionnaire, should the proposal go ahead a set of FAQs will be produced and more information will be shared.

Your views will be considered alongside other information to help Stockport Council decide whether to go ahead with the proposal.