Brown Bin permit registration opens 12 May

Registration for East Lothian Council’s 2025/2026 garden waste collection service opens on Monday 12 May.

Permit applications can be made using a myeastlothian account on our website until the sign-up window closes at 3pm on 4 July.

The garden waste permit charge is £35 - the same cost as last year when around 24,000 householders registered to use the scheme. Collections will run fortnightly between 1 September 2025 and 28 August 2026.

Permit stickers

Permit stickers will be delivered in August to every household which signs up showing the address and permit number for the registered property. Collection crews will only empty brown bins with a valid sticker clearly displayed and they will check the sticker details match the address. There is a strict limit of one brown bin per household. 

For flats with shared areas, residents are responsible for organising registration and payment for the service. This may be done by splitting the cost but only one person should order the permit and pay the full amount.