Green Garden Waste collection renewals now open — don't miss out
Published: 13 January 2026
Households that pay to receive the Isle of Wight Council’s Green Garden Waste collection service can renew their subscription.
Current customers are being given priority to renew their garden waste subscription, from January 13, 2026.
Subscribing to the garden waste service allows for materials like leaves, flowers, grassing cuttings, roots, hedge clipping, weeds and brambles to be collected from your kerbside.
This optional fortnightly scheme lets customers sign up online for a 240-litre wheeled bin or three reusable hessian sacks to be picked up from the kerbside for a total cost of £102 per year, working out at £8.50 a month.
The service operates from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027.
The renewal window opens at 8am on January 13 for those already on the scheme and closes on March 10, with the service opening to new subscribers from February 10.
If you currently pay by direct debit, this should automatically renew, and you will have received an email confirming your payment details for 2026.
If you pay annually by card, you will also have been sent an email with details on how to re-subscribe, so please check your emails, including your junk folder.
The scheme allows customers to subscribe online for a 240-litre wheeled bin or three reusable hessian sacks to be picked up from the kerbside for a total cost of £102 per year, working out at £8.50 a month.
Those who wish to cancel their direct debit service need to do so by 5pm on March 3.
Garden waste collected at the kerbside then goes to a composting site where it is turned into a nutritious soil conditioner, improving the soil’s structure to help plants grow.
Councillor Karen Lucioni, Chair of the Environment and Community Protection Committee, said: “Once again in 2026, we will come to you and continue to make your gardening life easier. You won’t have to put heavy and wet garden waste in your car boot.”
"Now is the time to re-subscribe for your garden waste service so it can be picked up from your doorstep, and means no more trips the tip with bugs and spiders in your car; and the bins are definitely much easier for brambles and rose bushes - much fewer scratches."
Natasha Dix, service director for waste, environment and planning, said: “The garden waste scheme we run is extremely popular, and we are reminding our current customers to make sure they renew annual subscriptions to reserve their space for this year.
“The garden waste collected by the council is composted locally on the Island and this contributes to our national recycling targets.
“Our garden waste service is a ‘one-stop shop’ meaning you do not have to call for collection each time and we will be there come rain or shine.
“New customers will also be accepted from February 10.”
The council will accept garden waste such as grass cuttings, leaves and sticks. Please no logs, rubble or soil. The garden waste subscription also includes a free Christmas tree collection service in January.
If you are planning on signing up for the first time, new subscribers are being accepted from February 10 2026.