Disposal of Garden Lawn Waste

On the many occassions that we have scarified and renovated a lawn, there is always a lot of scarifying debris to get rid of. There are many Local Authority green waste schemes but you might need a lot of wheelie bins or recycling bins to place your debris accumulated into them so that it may be disposed of and recycled.

You have several options available to you should you have a lot of garden and lawn debris to dispose of. You could of course burn it, compost it, organise a skip, make many trips to the local waster transfer station (the tip or dump) or consider using a Hippo Bag.

Now do not let me mislead you on the amount of debris that will be removed from your lawn during it's renovation process. The first task should be to mow the lawn down within an inch of it's life to remove the 'bulk denisity' of lawn growth. Then you can start to scarify the lawn in an Union Flag pattern.

You will get around 10 cubic metres out of a 1000 square metre lawn - that's 11 Hippo Waste Bags which come in a handy 1 cubic yard size or 'dumpy bag' or a 1.5 cubic yard bag that looks more like a bath tub - for getting rid of the very same!

You can purchase Hippo Bags from many a Builders yard or DIY outlet such as Wickes and B & Q or Travis Perkins or Jewsons. Buy a 1 cubic yard Midi Bag for between £8.00 and then once filled, contact Hippo Bag to arrange collection online or over the telephone which will cost £49.40 including VAT. There are some economies of scale and costs when booking multibag Hippo Bag collections.

There are a few restrictions on where the lorry can pick up the now full bag(s) and more details of these can be found on the Hippo Waste web site.

Comments

[astroturf perth]

Brilliant idea. Debris from mowing your lawn is basically a big problem especially if you do not an area to burn them. This is a good solution to the problem, not only that it can help our environment it also is a good practice to dump debris on this eco-friendly bag.

Reply - thanks for your comment. Keep them coming!

[Abby]

This hippo bag is really an improvised product. Thank you so much for the inventor of this for making us be concerned in our environment. Thank you also to the admin of this blog. Your posts are quite interesting with brilliant ideas and topic.