Soil and excavation material

How to dispose of garden soil.

Recommended answerSoil is heavy inert material and is usually excluded from ordinary garden-waste collections.

Recommended route

Use a civic site, clean-soil reuse or authorised inert-waste route.

Before disposal or return

  1. Check for contamination.

Do not

Do not put soil in food-waste or standard garden bins.

Reference sources

Checked 2026-08-16