Autumn is a great time to get started in your garden. The leaves are falling and the wind is picking up. Many residents use this time to tidy up their gardens and prepare them for the coming months. With a few smart choices, you can keep your garden tidy and help reduce waste. This way, your garden stays healthy, and together we can create a clean and pleasant living environment.
What do you do with all those leaves?
Leaves can be disposed of with the organic waste. Or use them as natural protection against frost. For example, scatter them around cold-sensitive plants.
Leaves also make a good base for homemade compost. This turns garden waste into a rich source of nutrients for your plants. Want to make your own compost? Here's how:
Bulky garden waste: where can it go?
Not all garden waste fits or belongs in your organic waste container. Stones, thick branches, roots, or pieces of wood, for example, don't belong there. You can take this type of bulky garden waste to the recycling center with your recycling pass. There, we'll process it properly so it can be reused. We're happy to list it for you:
- Coarse garden waste You can take thick branches, tree stumps, roots and wood to the recycling center with your environmental pass
- Hard plastic from the garden You can take watering cans, broken garden chairs or rain barrels to the recycling center with your environmental pass
- Small garden waste Grass, leaves, plants, small twigs and small amounts of soil or potting soil from flower pots may be placed in the organic waste container.
- Other small material Pebbles, hydro grains and broken flower pots belong in the residual waste.
Unsure where something belongs? In a separate blog post, we explain how to identify bulky garden waste and where to take it. This way, you can always be sure you're doing the right thing and contributing to a clean and green living environment.
Garden waste: what goes where?
This way we keep the neighborhood clean together A tidy garden not only reduces waste but also contributes to a pleasant neighborhood. By properly separating waste and raw materials and disposing of garden waste, we contribute to a clean and safe living environment.