Information for Northumberland Householders on the three ways to recycle garden waste.
If you can't find what you are looking on this page might find it in one of the following locations:
Home compost
A certain amount of garden waste can be composted at home in a home compost bin, providing a free and environmentally friendly supply of nutrients for growing plants, flowers and vegetables in your garden and/or pots.
Garden Waste Collection Scheme
Household Waste Recovery Centres
Garden waste such as leaves, grass cuttings and hedge trimmings can be taken to any of the 12 Household Waste Recovery Centres in Northumberland.
Christmas trees can be recycled at all 12 Household Waste Recovery Centres in Northumberland. These should be placed in the garden waste skips on the sites.
Click here to find out how you can buy compost made from Northumberland garden waste.
Christmas trees can also be collected in the Garden Waste Collection Scheme at the start of the new season. The trees will need to be chopped into smaller sections first.
Click here for further information on the Garden Waste Collection Scheme
Further collection points will also be made available on certain days during January. Please click here to go to our Recycling at Christmas and New Year page for further information.
Broken household electrical tools can be taken to all 12 Household Waste Recovery Centres in Northumberland and placed at the designated electrical collection point.
Broken non-electrical tools such as spades- Please check with the site attendant on duty at your Household Waste Recovery Centre as to the most appropriate collection area for your tool.
A Community recycling project:
GARDEN TOOL RECYCLING. The Conservation Foundation’s Tools Shed recycles and repairs garden tools in association with HMP Northumberland. Once they have been refurbished in the prison’s workshops, they are given free to school and community gardens. Please take any broken or unwanted garden hand tools (no petrol of electricity driven ones please) to the Tools Shed collection point in the Plant Centre at The Alnwick Garden.
You may also like to take a look at our Community Reuse and Recycling webpage for further ideas
Many weeds can be composted in your home compost bin, put into your garden waste bin for collection or taken to the 12 Household Waste Recovery Centres.
"Weeds are great to add to compost heaps as long as they are not seeding, and you are very careful what you do with the perennial pernicious ones. Indeed, some require special treatment and it is illegal even to move them elsewhere" N Scott, Composting an easy household guide P89 (See pernicious weeds below)
For further information on what materials can be composted please visit Recycle Now.
Pernicious weeds such as Japanese knotweed, Himalayan Balsam and Giant Hogweed are non-native species, extremely pernicious and difficult to kill. Do not compost or place out for collection, or take to a Household Waste Recovery Centre.
