For 2025, the licences will cost slightly more, with a £1.50 annual rise. They will now be £47.50 if bought at Contact Warrington or over the phone or £43.50 online. The face-to-face and telephone options are more expensive, due to the higher costs of operating and staffing these channels.

If you are a resident who wishes to benefit from the online saving, but are unable to use the internet and can’t access help from friends and family, you can get support to subscribe online and free internet access at The Gateway on Sankey Street, at Contact Warrington in the council’s 1 Time Square office or at any of LiveWire’s libraries.

You will need to buy a new licence to benefit from the first round of collections, which starts on 4 March 2025. The collections will then run throughout the year until 5 December 2025.

You can also pay for more than one green bin registered to your property. If you don’t want to subscribe to the service, you can compost your garden waste at home or take it to one of our community recycling centres.

Cabinet Member for Housing Services and Licensing, Cllr John Kerr-Brown, said: “Our green waste collection service continues to be a popular and convenient choice for residents, and also helps us recycle thousands of tonnes of garden waste every year. 

“While we always seek to keep charges down, a year-on-year increase in our operating costs means that, unfortunately, this small increase is necessary again this year. 

“However, with the small increase we are able to continue delivering a service which makes a real difference, allowing all of us to do our bit to recycle right, reduce our carbon footprint and tackle the climate emergency."