Book Garden Refuse Removal in Cape Town
Garden waste collection from R600 a load — leaves, branches, prunings and tree-felling waste. Our crew carries it out and loads it. Book before 11am and it's gone this afternoon.
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Garden refuse removal in Cape Town starts at R600 for a small clean-out and runs to R3,800 for a 6 m³ load. The price is flat, agreed before we arrive, and it covers labour, transport, tipping and VAT. Book before 11am on a weekday and the crew collects the same afternoon.
Nothing needs bagging, stacking or dragging to the kerb first — this is a collection service, so we carry the pile out ourselves. Branches up to roughly 150 mm thick are chipped on-site as we load, at no extra charge. Send your suburb and a rough volume through our online quote form and a flat number comes back within 30 minutes; no on-site visit, no deposit.
We collect right across the areas we serve — all 66 Cape Town suburbs — with dedicated garden waste rounds in the north, including Durbanville and Table View — as well as the Southern Suburbs, the Atlantic Seaboard and the South Peninsula.
What a garden waste collection costs to book
We charge by volume, not by the hour, so a slow job never costs you more than a quick one. Pick the closest size — we confirm it against your description before anything is booked.
R600 – R900
A weekend of pruning, a few bags of leaves
R2,000 – R2,800
A whole garden tidied, or a hedge taken back
R2,800 – R3,800
A felled tree sectioned, or a full yard stripped
Bigger than a bakkie?
Tree-felling jobs and whole-garden strips are quoted on the description. Tell us what's there.
Get a flat priceThree things that change the number
A mixed pile. Garden refuse thrown in with builders rubble after a landscaping job has to be separated before either stream can be tipped. We do that on the verge, and it adds R200–R500 for the sorting time.
Stumps and heavy timber. Branches up to about 150 mm are chipped as we load. Anything over 200 mm needs a dedicated stump-grinder, which we book as a separate job rather than folding it into the load price.
Access. Distance from the truck to the pile, stairs, narrow side passages and estate rules all cost time. Mention them when you book and the quote holds.
What we'll collect
- Leaves, lawn clippings, hedge trimmings
- Branches and prunings up to ~150 mm thick (we chip on-site)
- Bagged green waste — we'll empty and recycle the bags
- Tree-felling waste, sectioned logs, brushwood
- Mixed garden + builders rubble — we sort on the verge
- Indigenous-garden clear-outs (alien-invasive clearing also available)
What we don't take
- Stumps over 200 mm (separate stump-grinder service)
- Soil and gravel in bulk (different category — quote separately)
- Wet kitchen organics or food scraps
- Garden chemicals, pesticides, fertilisers in packaging
These need specialist handlers — we'll point you to the right one.
Booking a garden refuse collection
- Send the job through. Suburb, rough volume, what's in the pile and what the access looks like. That is everything the quote form asks for.
- Flat price back in 30 minutes. Tipping and VAT included, no deposit taken, nothing added afterwards.
- Pick your slot. Before 11am on a weekday means this afternoon. In the autumn leaf drop (April to June) and the spring pruning rush (September to November) the slots go fastest, so a day's notice helps.
- We load, chip and sweep. Branches are chipped as they go on, bagged waste is emptied and the bags recycled, and the area is left clear before we drive off.
Garden waste is one of several streams we run daily, alongside everything else we clear across Cape Town — so a garden tidy-up and a builders rubble load can go out on the same booking.
Where your garden refuse actually goes
Clean garden refuse does not belong in a landfill cell, so we keep it separate from rubble on the verge and run it into the City's green-waste stream, where it is chipped and composted rather than buried. That separation is the whole reason we sort a mixed pile before loading instead of shovelling the lot into one truck.
A loaded removal truck tips at a Council disposal facility at tariff. The City's free residential drop-offs are for private cars and light trailers up to 1.5 tons — they are not commercial tipping sites, which is why hiring a crew and "just running it to the free drop-off yourself" are not the same job. Our tipping cost is already inside the flat rate you were quoted; you never see a separate disposal line.
If you would rather take a small load yourself, the facility list, hours and what each site accepts are all in the Cape Town dump sites directory — 28 facilities across the Peninsula, mapped.
Booking garden refuse removal in Cape Town — common questions
The questions we get asked on the first phone call.
Book your garden refuse pickup
Flat-rate quote in 30 minutes. Same-day collection across all 66 Cape Town suburbs.
