South Oxfordshire District Council have good news for you - they are able to restart the garden waste collections from the next week they’re scheduled, which is the week beginning 22 February. Please share this news with your neighbours and your friends and family in the district.
If you still have your real Christmas tree, as a garden waste customer they can take it on your garden waste collection day. If possible please cut it up and put it inside your bin. If you do not have space or cannot manage to do this it can be put out at the side of your brown bin.
The crews will be working hard to complete the rounds and are expecting more garden waste bins to be put out than normal, so please bear with them.
Please ensure all the garden waste fits into the bin with the lid closed. If you can’t fit everything in the bin, please keep anything extra back (except Christmas trees) until the next collection.
The restart of the service was delayed as many of the bin crews were off sick or were having to self-isolate due to Covid-19. Whilst there are now have enough crew members to complete the rounds they are still working on tight staffing levels and more disruption can't de ruled out if those levels dip suddenly as they did before.
Please note that SODC are not taking on any new garden waste customers at this time to focus on fulfilling the service for existing customers.
