Renew your Garden Waste service - You can renew your service when you receive your letter.

Sign up to our Garden Waste Service

Existing Customers

Renewals

If you pay by card and have received your letter, you can renew your service. For your service to continue without a break in collections please renew by 31st August.

If you paid by direct debit your service will renew automatically. Your payment will be taken on 1 July.

All Direct Debit customers will receive new stickers by mid-August. Please apply these to the back of your green bin ready for collection.

Changes

Please use our renewal form to cancel your service, then re-sign up again.

New customers

Sign up to the service

Sign up now to receive collections until 31 August 2026. There are no discounts if you sign up part-way through the year and no refunds if you stop using the service.

How does it work?

Follow these steps:

1. Login or register for a My Watford account
2. Sign up for the garden waste collection service
3. You will receive a sticker for each bin within two weeks
4. Apply the sticker to the back of your green bin
5. Put your bin out for collection on your property boundary by 6am on your collection day
6. Bring your bin back within 24 hours of collection

How much does it cost?

Standard

• £60 a year for first bin
• £75 a year for each additional bin (up to seven bins in total)

Those receiving council-related benefits

• £40 a year for each bin (see terms and conditions - up to seven bins in total)

Here is a list of qualifying benefits:

• Child Tax Credit
• Council Tax Benefit / Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme
• Employment and Support Allowance (income based)
• Guaranteed Pension Credit (not Savings Pension Credit)
• Housing Benefit
• Income Support
• Job Seekers Allowance (income based)
• Universal Credit
• Working Tax Credit

Qualifying schools, places of worship and charity shops

• £60 a year for each bin (up to seven bins in total)