{"id":568513,"date":"2025-11-13T22:15:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568513\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:15:18","slug":"garden-waste-collection-charges-in-sandwell-remain-frozen-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/568513\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden waste collection charges in Sandwell remain frozen for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/653aa22e8f876.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Sandwell Council has confirmed that the cost for garden waste collections will remain frozen at \u00a340 for 2026.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Garden waste collections will take their usual winter break, and the last collection of 2025 will be\u00a0Friday 12 December, returning in spring 2026. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Residents can check the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.vuelio.co.uk\/tracking\/click?d=BSnqSJSrmsk_zKUG_SZgy8hteGoVOkj0XBGPh2cfh6ukmj8lgH2u6CRSC-ARdxZjEWdu06VJbGREW-4c2ckv_qtrYuevMTXewmytP6mTc5tzCczwqh8Al_U2032IFyaaLXQxx_SS8FvllfVyxfUzekM1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online bin day finder<\/a>\u00a0for their last garden waste collection day and present their bins for collection accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Subscriptions for 2026 garden waste service will open\u00a0on Monday 19 January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>From 2026, garden waste collections will change in line with residents\u2019 Alternate Weekly Collection bin days.<\/p>\n<p>This means that households whose collection days changed when AWC was introduced on 15 September 2025 will see their garden waste collections move to match their new collection day.<\/p>\n<p>Residents will be able to find their garden waste collection dates for 2026 by using the online bin day finder closer to when garden waste collections are due to resume in spring 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Keith Allcock, Sandwell Council&#8217;s Cabinet Member for Environment and Highways, said:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe\u2019d like to thank everyone who has used the garden waste service this year. By recycling garden waste, residents help us reduce waste sent for incineration or to landfill, helping us keep Sandwell green.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re also pleased to confirm that the subscription cost will remain frozen at \u00a340 for another year, offering good value for money for residents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The service will take its usual winter break while there is less garden waste being produced, returning in the spring ready for the new growing season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on garden waste collections, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.vuelio.co.uk\/tracking\/click?d=mmA_GD5bDhOpy5-M7Y6kkx2GV7lpi4yqnoSFkiy2rka0Xv0c5KMWLojXeajJjxz65NSvLDrA-bjGTe3GaquA03oD50UWoS7Wir_G60aN78P7V2wWM5yB_pqfy3Nu5SKmdfLJ6lzHwxJnXbER8uwrs30-zpJDO2bl40TJhpCsf3sT0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sandwell.gov.uk\/gardenwaste<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandwell Council has confirmed that the cost for garden waste collections will remain frozen at \u00a340 for 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-568513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-102-5","9":"tag-102-5-fm","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-black-country","12":"tag-brierley-hill","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-dab","15":"tag-dudley","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-fm","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-halesowen","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-online","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-sport","25":"tag-stourbridge","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115544701943018667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}