Green Waste - Brown Bin renewals - Price Increase

On Monday 20th January Guildford Borough Council will start to send out our renewal reminders for the garden waste service. The price has increased from £38 to £41. This increase is because GBC’s costs have increased as they now pay for the full cost of the disposal of garden waste where this was covered by Surrey County Council in previous years.

The renewal process is starting early this year at the request of GBC’s finance team to ensure that they have the capacity to switch systems at the start of April. The first notifications will start going out from Monday and will continue through to the following week when the letters will go into the post. Direct debit customers will be notified in February.

There has been a slight dip in renewals combined with an increase in residents attempting to present a container without signing up to the service. GBC will be writing to all properties that have not renewed the service in the last two years to encourage them to renew this year.