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Waste Disposal

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Any gardening cuttings or other rubbish will need to be disposed of in your own domestic rubbish bin where possible. You will need to arrange the removal of any larger quantities of rubbish yourself. The council provide waste collection facilities and services for you. It is illegal for me to drive rubbish to the tip for you.

Under normal circumstances, the grass cuttings, weeds and hedge trimmings will easily fit into your brown garden waste bin if you have one. If you don’t have one, this waste can be put into your household waste bin. If there isn’t much space, you can put a little bit of it into the bin before each collection day until you have removed all of it.

Problems can arise under the following circumstances.

* If your garden is very overgrown, an unusually high amount of waste may be produced in one go.
* If you have items that are too large, or too heavy to go into the bin.

Newcastle City Council, have informed me that it is actually illegal for me to bring your rubbish to tip for you.
They say:
Trade waste is not accepted. It is a criminal offence for any trades person or company to use a House Waste Recycling Centre to dispose of their waste.  Attendants are instructed to turn away and report any vehicles suspected of trying to dispose of trade waste. Newcastle City Council monitors the sites and prosecutes trade users.

(see: Newcastle Council - Rubbish and Recycling Rules)

Your council should provide a waste collection service for household waste. Business may have to use a private waste collection services, for example skip or mini-skip hire. The following links may be useful:

Newcastle Council - Rubbish and Recycling

Newcastle Mini Skip Hire

An alternative strategy is to compost your garden waste. As it rots down, it will become more compact, therefore reducing its volume for disposal. If it is composted over a period of time it could then be redistributed as organic matter in the garden.

BBC Compost Guide

Large, heavy objects may be able to be placed in areas of the garden where they are not noticed, for example within shrubs, trees or behind other structures. Alternatively, they could be broken down into smaller pieces for disposal, if this is possible.