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Brown wheeled bins - Waste collection and disposal

Waste disposal and collection
New/ replacement bins
Extra sacks to place beside your bin To find out which day of the week your collection takes place please go to the box on the left called "My Nearest..." Put your post code in the search box and press search.

The Council uses brown wheeled bins for the collection of non recyclable waste. A charge of £29 is made supplying these bins unless the Council has itself damaged them during collections.  To find out more please contact our Call Centre on 020 8770 5070  

The wheeled bins issued are usually 140 litres in size, holding about two black sacks of waste. It doesn't sound a lot but please remember that half of your waste can be recycled, (newspapers, cardboard, cans and plastic bottles) in your green wheeled bin. Larger 240 litre brown wheeled bins are only available under exceptional circumstances. To find out more please contact our Call Centre on 020 8770 5070.

Please note:

a. Bank Holiday Collections: May and August Bank Holiday Mondays are normal collection days for brown and green wheeled bin services. Any changes to other public holidays will be noted on our website or advertised in the local press when they arise or you can contact our Call Centre on tel. 020 8770 5070 for more details.  

b. Garden waste must not be put in your brown wheeled bin. Garden waste will only be collected in the special green waste sacks.  

c. Replacement Food Waste Bags for the food waste collections operating in some areas can be obtained by contacting our Call Centre on tel. 020  8770 5070.

Wheeled bins are not practical for some addresses and the Council allows residents living in these properties to use black sacks which can be purchased from supermarkets. Each week, we will collect a maximum of 2 black sacks from each of these homes unless there are special circumstances.

Extra Side Waste
Extra sacks of waste placed at the side of the brown wheeled bins will not be collected unless it is placed in special blue sacks that can be purchased for £2 per sack from the Council. If you do not have a brown wheeled bin we will collect a maximum of 2 sacks unless there are exceptional circumstances. Please contact our Call Centre on 020 8770 5070 if you need to arrange for more than 2 sacks to be collected. 

The special blue sacks for extra waste are available to purchase for cash only from Libraries and the Civic Offices.

We do not operate a closed lid policy but the waste inside the bins needs to be secure and not fall out when our staff pull the bin to the vehicle

Please note: Your non-recyclable waste needs to be put out after 8pm the night before or by 6am on the day of collection.