Bulky waste collections

Items we collect

We will collect:

• all household appliances, excluding large range cookers and commercial appliances
• all household furniture
• a three piece suite, which counts as three items
• bed base and mattress, which count as two items
• table and chairs, which count as two items. A table is one item, and a set of chairs is one item
• domestic refrigerators. Please empty them of food
• bathroom suites (baths, sinks, toilets, showers), excluding tiles
• bicycles
• carpets must be manageable by one person or you should cut them into pieces, roll them up and tie them
• empty water tanks, excluding large tanks or where access is difficult
• garage doors
• garden furniture and patio heaters
• garden machinery
• gas fires, excluding back boilers and gas bottles
• glass, which you must contain if it is broken
• metal items, excluding stair-lifts or chairs from stair-lifts
• mobility scooters
• sheds:
  • These must not be any larger than 8ft in length or 8ft in width.
  • You must dismantle the shed into whole sides, floor and roof.
  • We treat a shed as a standard collection of six items.
  • If you have other items to collect as well as a shed you will need to book a large collection of 12 items.
  • We will not collect a shed if the roof, or any part of it, contains asbestos 
• sacks of rubbish. Up to six rubbish sacks count as one item. We only collect a maximum of six sacks per collection. Sacks must not contain food waste or anything on the list of items that we don’t collect
• trampolines; large ones must be disassembled
• windows and doors, excluding large patio doors
• wood, which you must bundle together and tie up so that it can be lifted by one person

We treat any exceptionally large pieces such as a large corner sofa, patio doors and American style fridge-freezers as two items.

Items we don’t collect

We do not collect:

• asbestos
• bags of concrete
• boilers
• bricks and rubble
• car and motorbike parts or tyres
• commercial appliances
• commercial, industrial or clinical waste (including hypodermic needles)
• garden waste, trees and bushes
• gas bottles
• house clearances
• large quantities (skip load)
• liquids - waste oils, paint tins, corrosive or noxious liquids
• loose material requiring excessive handling
• oil tanks or full water tanks
• pianos
• range cookers
• sheds and coal bunkers still intact
• food waste
• ride-on lawnmowers

You can recycle small Electrical and Electronic Equipment using our Electrical item recycling service.