Garden Waste Collection Edinburgh

Garden Waste Collection
Edinburgh

Covering Morningside, Gorgie and Dalry and Portobello, and every Edinburgh postcode. One-off and repeat garden waste collection across Edinburgh. We take the grass, hedge trimmings, leaves, prunings and branches the brown bin cannot hold, loaded by us from wherever you have piled it, and send it for composting rather than landfill.

This is the service for the load that is too big for the brown bin and too messy for the car: the September hedge cut, the October leaf fall, the spring tidy that filled fifteen bags. We collect from Edinburgh gardens the same or next day, and you pay for the space the waste takes in the van, not for a year-long permit you will not fill.

SEPA Registered

Same Day Available

Fully Insured

From £30

📲 WhatsApp for a Free Quote 📞 0141 280 6130

★★★★★ 4.9 / 5 Based on 171 Google reviews

Garden Waste Collection in Edinburgh — Cheaper Than A Skip team at work

From just

£30

No hidden charges

The Problem

Garden Waste Piling Up in Edinburgh Faster Than the Brown Bin Can Take It?

A 240-litre brown bin collected fortnightly is built for maintenance, not for projects. One leylandii hedge reduction is five to ten bins. A mature tree's autumn leaf fall is more. And in Edinburgh, as in most of Scotland, the council brown bin now needs a paid annual permit, with no pro-rata rate if you only need it for one big job.

The alternative most people try is bagging it and driving to the recycling centre. Garden waste is bulky and light, so a car boot takes very little of it, the bags split, and several sites will not admit a van at all without a booking. It is a slow, dirty afternoon for a job that takes us twenty minutes.

Brown bin permits are annual and non-refundable — poor value for a one-off clear-out
A single hedge reduction is 5–10 bins' worth of cuttings
Bagged green waste fills a car boot in minutes and splits on the way
Several recycling centres will not admit vans or trailers without a booking
Turf, soil and treated timber cannot go in the brown bin at all

Garden Waste Collection Edinburgh — crew clearing a property

£5k

Fly-tipping fine risk

★★★★★

Google Review

Cut a forty-foot leylandii hedge back and had a mountain of it on the lawn. They came the next morning, loaded the lot in half an hour and the garden was clean. Far easier than a dozen trips to the tip and cheaper than I expected.

Aileen M. — Leith, Edinburgh

Who We Help

Garden Waste Collection in Edinburgh — Who Calls Us

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Homeowners after a big cut

Hedges, pruning, the autumn leaf fall — the one-off load that swamps the bin.

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Gardeners and landscapers

Green waste collected from the client's kerb so your van stays on the job.

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Landlords and factors

Overgrown gardens between tenancies cleared and the waste gone the same day.

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No brown bin

Flats and tenement back courts in Edinburgh with no council garden waste service.

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Storm damage

Fallen branches and blown-down fencing cleared after a named storm.

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Regular collections

A monthly pick-up through the growing season for gardens that produce a lot.

Garden Waste Collection Edinburgh — what is included in the service

80%

Waste Recycled

What's Included

Everything Covered in Your Garden Waste Collection Quote

Grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, prunings and leaves
Branches, brash and small logs
Bagged or loose — we load it from where it is
Turf, soil and weeds (priced by weight)
Old plants, pots, compost bags and grow bags
Fence panels and treated timber kept separate for the right facility
Green waste sent for composting, not landfill
SEPA registered carrier — Waste Transfer Note on request

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How It Works

Garden Waste Collection in Edinburgh — Step by Step

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Send a photo

One picture of the pile is enough. Tell us if it is bagged or loose and where it sits in the garden.

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Fixed price

We quote by van space, from a minimum load up to a full van, before we set off.

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Same or next day

Garden waste is quick to load. Most Edinburgh collections are done within 24 hours.

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We load it

Rear garden, side path or front kerb — we carry and load. You do not need to move it.

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Composted

Green waste goes to a licensed composting facility. Timber and soil go to the right recyclers.

Pricing

Garden Waste Collection Prices in Edinburgh

Typical range for Edinburgh: £45–£150. Every figure below is a fixed quote agreed before we start — labour, disposal and recycling included. No charge for stairs, no fuel surcharge and no day-rate creep.

Job Size	Price	Typical For
Minimum load	£30	Up to 8 bags or one small hedge trim
Quarter van	£60–£75	Around 15–20 bags — a full hedge cut or a leaf fall
Half van	£110–£140	A full garden tidy, several hedges, brash and prunings
Full van	£200–£260	Overgrown garden reclaim, tree work brash, mixed timber and green waste

Send photos on WhatsApp or call 0141 280 6130 and we will come back with a fixed figure, usually within 60 minutes.

Local Coverage

Areas We Cover for Garden Waste Collection in Edinburgh

We cover every Edinburgh postcode — EH1–EH17 — and the surrounding Edinburgh area. Local crews, local knowledge, and no travel charge anywhere inside our Edinburgh coverage.

Edinburgh Areas

Leith
Morningside
Gorgie
Dalry

Also Covered

Portobello
Corstorphine
Newington
Stockbridge

Postcodes

EH1–EH17

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Local Knowledge

Local Knowledge: Garden Waste Collection Across Edinburgh

From back courts to half-acre plots, Edinburgh gardens are not one job. Edinburgh is tenements from Leith to Gorgie and Marchmont, Georgian townhouses in the New Town, colony flats, bungalows across the outer suburbs, and student housing everywhere south of the Meadows.

The parts of Edinburgh we know best are Newington, student flats and the September turnover; Stockbridge, Georgian flats with basements and no parking; Craigmillar, housing-association voids and regeneration; Leith, tenements and new dockside flats with the fastest tenancy churn in the city.

Edinburgh's recycling centres are Seafield, Sighthill at Bankhead and Craigmillar; they are car-focused and self-unload. City of Edinburgh Council charges per item for special uplifts; see our Edinburgh uplift guide. Green waste is bulky and a car takes very little of it, so the collection usually wins on price. Our Edinburgh Council Bulky Uplift 2026 — Costs, Wait Times, Tenement Reality has the detail.

What to tell us when you book: Controlled parking zones across the centre, tenement stairs, and the tram works all matter. Mattress and sofa collections are the jobs we do most in Edinburgh.

FAQs

Garden Waste Collection Edinburgh — Common Questions

Garden waste collection in Edinburgh starts at £30 for a minimum load of up to about eight bags. A quarter van of 15 to 20 bags is £60 to £75, a half van £110 to £140, and a full van of green waste, brash and timber £200 to £260. Send a photo on WhatsApp and we will fix the price before we come out.

For a one-off job, usually yes. A permit in City of Edinburgh Council's area is an annual charge whether you fill the bin or not, and a big hedge cut will not fit in it anyway. For fortnightly grass through the summer the permit is good value; for the September and October clear-out a single collection is cheaper and faster.

No. Bagged waste loads faster, which keeps the price down, but we will load a loose pile of branches or leaves from the lawn. Tell us which when you send the photo so we allow the right time.

Yes, but they are priced by weight rather than volume because a van reaches its legal limit long before it looks full. Keep soil and rubble separate from the green waste and we will collect both on the same visit.

Green waste goes to a licensed composting facility, where it becomes soil improver. Timber, fence panels and treated wood go to a wood recycler. Very little of a garden collection goes to landfill. We are SEPA registered under licence WCR/R/3011855.

Yes. Several Edinburgh customers book a monthly pick-up from April to October. It is priced per collection with no contract, so you can pause it in a dry month.

City of Edinburgh Council charges per item for special uplifts; see our Edinburgh uplift guide. We are the alternative when the wait is too long, the item list is too short, or you cannot get it to the kerb: we carry from inside and usually come the same day.

Usually the same day. Mattress and sofa collections are the jobs we do most in Edinburgh. A booking before midday is normally collected that afternoon; otherwise next day, with a two-hour arrival window.

All of them. The regular calls come from Portobello, Corstorphine and Newington, and we also cover Musselburgh, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg from the same run. If you are anywhere in Edinburgh, send a photo and we will confirm a slot.

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