Brown bin day – bank holiday collection.

Brown bin collection day.

South Oxfordshire District Council will collect the following:

  • Grass
  • Leaves
  • Weeds
  • Flowers and plants
  • Hedge clippings
  • Branches (not more than 10cm thick)
  • Prunings and twigs
  • Windfall fruit
  • Hay / Straw (soiled animal bedding from non-meat eating animals only eg rabbits)
  • Vegetable waste from the garden only eg potato tops (not kitchen waste)

The following cannot be put in the brown bin:

  • Food or kitchen waste (put this in your food waste bin)
  • Cat or dog faeces
  • Vacuum dust or fire cinders
  • Soil, stones or rubble
  • Wood that has been treated or painted
  • Cardboard, Tetra packs (milk or juice cartons), or wrapping paper (these can go in your green recycling bin)
  • Plastic flower pots, trays or bags
  • Weeds that need reporting to the Environment Agency, like Japanese knotweed and ragwort.

For more information on refuse collection please visit the following South Oxford District Council website links:
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/household-collections/collection-days

http://www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/garden-waste/garden-waste-faq