RESIDENTS looking to have their brown bins emptied have less than 24 hours left to register with East Lothian Council.

Nearly 20,000 people signed up to have a fortnightly garden waste collection when the local authority introduced a £35 charge earlier this year.

A second registration window opened on August 24 and will close at 3.30pm tomorrow (Friday).

Anyone signing up in the latest window will have their collections run from October 21 through to September 1 next year.

The brown bin can be used to dispose of grass cuttings, hedge clippings, leaves, twigs and small branches, shrub prunings, and plants, weeds and flowers.

However, soil, turf and wood – as well as plant pots – should not be put in the brown bin.

For more information, go to www.eastlothian.gov.uk

Material collected is delivered to Forth Resource Management’s composting facility at East Fenton.

The compost is then used for landscaping or sold as a soil improver called Caledonian Green Goodness Compost.