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Brown Bin Charge Terms and Conditions

3. Wheeled Bin Presentation

3.1 The Council shall provide to the Customer a brown wheeled bin to contain their Garden Waste (including grass cuttings,
       leaves, bark, flowers/plants, hedge trimmings, weeds, twigs/small branches). Food waste is also accepted within the
       brown bin. Further information on what can and cannot be recycled within the brown bin, and other recycling bins, is
       provided on the Council website.

3.2 Wheeled bins must be presented for collection on the kerbside by 07.00 on the designated collection day. All wheeled
      bins must be presented with the lid fully closed. Wheeled bins which are overfilled and/or excessively heavy will not be
      uplifted.

3.3 The Council shall have no responsibility for the uplift of excess waste presented beside the wheeled bin.

3.4 Wheeled bins that are presented after 07.00, and are missed, will not be lifted by the Council until the next scheduled
      brown bin collection day.

3.5 Only wheeled bins supplied by or approved by the Council will be emptied by the Council.

3.6 The wheeled bin remains the property of the Council and should not be removed from the property.

3.7 The Customer is responsible for ensuring that the Permit they are issued is applied correctly to the wheeled bin, as per
       the instructions detailed within the letter posted with the Permit.

3.8 Permits are issued detailing the individual property information; they are non-transferrable and only valid when
      presented at the property for which they were originally purchased.

3.9 The Council has no obligation under this contract to empty wheeled bins where they do not comply with these
       conditions.

3.10 Brown bins presented to the kerbside containing garden waste, which do not correctly display a valid permit, will not
        be serviced.

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