PEOPLE being are reminded they will need to renew their subscriptions for garden waste collections to ensure their brown bins are emptied after April 1.

Existing licences will only be valid for collections up until the end of March. After this date, a new coloured licence will be needed to ensure collections are made. The charge for April 2015 to March 2016 will be £36 (for a minimum of 19 collections).

Customers already receiving the garden waste service will be contacted by Monday, either by post, email or text message, to remind them that their subscriptions need renewing.

Just under half of the district’s residents subscribed to the scheme in 2014 for garden waste collections which started again this week. Go to ryedale.gov.uk