[cybermuda]

This area of TV has a garden waste collection every Wednesday

I have seen various items on neighbours' driveways, including large brown bags and loose branches.

I have two questions:

Is it okay to put branches out by themselves, or should everything be bagged?

Does "garden waste" mean just that, or can I include household vegetable matter in the bags, such as banana skins, apple cores etc.?

Which brings me to a surprise third question, for those who were asleep in class:

If I cannot include household vegetable matter, is composting popular here? There are commercially-available plastic compost bins that, in our climate, would turn waste into soil relatively quickly.

Thank you