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Residents across North Yorkshire can now pay for their garden waste licence ahead of this year’s collections starting in March.

A licence for the 2024 season costs £46.50 for garden waste collections between March and early December (existing customers in Craven, Hambleton and Ryedale will pay a reduced price of £42 as they have already paid for their March 2024 collections).

The licence covers one 240-litre wheelie bin to be emptied fortnightly (depending on where they live, some residents may have an equivalent number of compostable liners or sacks/bags). Anyone who would like to have more than one bin emptied can pay for a licence for each additional bin.

Once paid, a licence pack is due to arrive within 14 days.

Buy a garden waste licence online

For more information about the garden waste service, including terms and conditions, and collection dates, please visit the garden waste page.

Harry Briggs – North Yorkshire Council

**UPDATE**
Please be aware that some users of the on-line payment service at NYC are seeing a pop up advert for musical instruments. Try following the steps below to address this if you encounter it:

– Look for an “X” at the top right corner of the pop up. If you don’t see it, look for a button that says “dismiss”, “leave page”, “close”, “no thanks”, or similar.
– Close the whole browser tab or window to get rid of the pop up. Click the small “X” at the top of the browser window or swipe away if you are on mobile.
– Force quit the browser entirely.
– Turn on pop up blocker settings on the web browsers for both your computer and mobile devices to prevent pop ups in the future.