Please help us to reduce costs by making sure your garden waste is free from rubbish before dumping it at either of our transfer stations (Southbrook Transfer Station or Oxford Transfer Station)

The below lists have been supplied by the Garden City Compost Plant, where we dispose of all our greenwaste.  Please note, THIS LIST IS INTENDED AS A GUIDE ONLY

Material Acceptable for Composting

• Tree and shrub prunings up to 100mm thickness, and any length
• Leaves
• Any green vegetative material, ie, perennials, vegetable plants, annuals, fruits, etc
• Pea straw, clean hay, straw

Material NOT Acceptable for Composting

• Grass clippings (because of the problems caused by "Versatil" and similar sprays, and because the composting process cannot cope with large amounts of grass clippings)
• Bamboo
• Flax and flax flower stalks
• Palm fronds
• Gorse in seed
• Cabbage tree leaves
• Complete loads of weeds with roots heavily contaminated with soil
• Soil and compost heaps
• Stones
• Plastic, glass, metal objects
• Material with baling twine/string mixed through it
• Oxalis and listed noxious weeds
• Mixed loads of rubbish and garden waste that cannot be sorted
• Newspaper (clean newspapers can be recylced)
• Animal manure

If you have any material that you think may be suitable for composting, or would like further information, please contact us on (03) 313 6136.

Please refer to the Oxford Transfer Station or the Southbrook Transfer Station for details on charges.