Skip to main content

This is the improved Camden website. Tell us what you think.

Garden waste collection

If you live in a house, or a house divided up into flats, you can pay to have your garden waste collected each week. You can share these collections with your neighbours.

Subscribe for a garden waste collection

Subscribe to garden waste collections from April 2026. You will need to:

  1. enter your address
  2. you will be shown your existing recycling and rubbish collection services
  3. select the option to Subscribe to Green Garden Waste Service 

Call Veolia on 020 3567 8105 to apply for a discounted price.

If you are D/deaf or hard of hearing you can call Camden Veolia for free using SignVideo.

How much does it cost? 

It costs: 

  • £75 for a 12 month subscription 
  • £60 for a 9 month subscription 

You may be entitled to a discounted price, if you are: 

  • aged 65 or older 
  • or receiving 100% Council Tax Support 

Where to put your garden waste  

When subscribing you can request 3 reusable white garden waste bags or one brown garden waste bin. 

You should put your garden waste:  

  • in your white bags or brown bin  
  • outside the registered address by 7am on your collection day  
  • within one metre of the front entrance of the registered property  

Garden waste that does not fit in your bags or your bin will not be collected. 

Garden waste collection days 

We improved our garden waste collection service in 20205, reorganising collection routes to be more sustainable. This means that most subscribers will have their garden waste collected on a different day to their recycling, food waste and rubbish.

What goes in your garden waste 

We collect: 

  • grass cuttings 
  • weeds 
  • dead flowers 
  • garden prunings 
  • leaves and bark 

We can’t collect: 

  • soil or rubble 
  • plant pots 
  • stones 
  • large tree cuttings 
  • food waste 
  • any other general rubbish 

Compost bins and water butts

Composting is cheap, energy efficient and can improve your soil. 

Find out more with the North London Waste Authority's tips for composting. 

Water butts allow you to collect rainwater from your roof and use it in your garden. 

You can buy from Get Composting: 

  • compost bins from £5 plus delivery
  • water butts from £10 plus delivery 

Buy a composter or water butt