Parish Council
Garden Waste Subscriptions Renewal 2026
It’s time to renew garden waste subscriptions in West Devon
Residents of West Devon can now sign up to or renew their subscription for the borough’s garden waste collection service.
A year-long subscription to West Devon Borough Council’s garden waste collection service will cost £70 for 2026/27. One subscription provides four generous reusable sacks, which are collected every fortnight on the same day of the week as your recycling collections, in the opposite week to your black bag refuse collections.
Subscribers can put grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, cut flowers and plants, small branches, weeds, leaves, twigs, and vase flowers in their bags for collection.
You can sign up for 2026/27 collections from now, with collections starting from 1 April 2026. The year’s subscription will run until 31 March 2027.
Cllr Jeff Moody, West Devon Lead Member for Waste and Recycling, said: “For our residents who have gardens that they tend to, our garden waste collection service provides wonderful convenience.
“It’s such a time saver knowing that your garden clippings will be collected directly from your home, sent off for composting straight from your front door. Local farmers benefit too, as the resulting compost is sent off to them to use.
“We feel that the £70 charge – which works out at around £1.35 a week – represents good value for money for such a reliable and convenient service.”
If you’re already a subscriber to the garden waste service, there will be no changes to your service if you renew your subscription by 1 April, and you can continue to use your current garden waste sacks.
If you’re a new subscriber, the council will deliver garden sacks straight to your door. After that, you will simply need to fill them and leave them along with your household recycling and waste on your next scheduled collection day from 1 April.
If you’re subscribing for the first time, the council aims to deliver your green sacks within ten working days of you signing up.
The annual cost of £70 applies for fortnightly collections running until 31 March each year, excluding the weeks in December when the service is suspended for Christmas. You can check the exact suspension dates on our website or our social media channels in early December.
For more information and to sign up, visit: www.westdevon.gov.uk/gardenwaste