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Advice

Advice and guides

Six short guides answering the things people actually ask before arranging a collection. No sales pitch, and where the council route is the better option they say so.

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Guides

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Written to be useful whether or not you ever call us. Waste is a straightforward subject made confusing by rules that vary between councils and a trade with its own vocabulary.

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Council Waste Services: What Is Covered and What Is Not

Where the council collection ends and a private collection begins, and why some items are never in the bin round.

Read the Council Waste Services guide
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Types of Waste Collection, and Which One You Actually Need

Kerbside, bulky, garden, commercial and on-demand collections compared, so you can tell which fits the job.

Read the Types of Collection guide
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Where Your Waste Actually Goes

What happens after the van leaves: sorting, the materials that genuinely recycle, and what residual waste means.

Read the Recycling and Disposal guide
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Your Bin Was Missed: What to Do Next

The order to do things in when a collection is skipped, and the point at which it is worth arranging your own.

Read the Missed Bin Collection guide
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Skip or Man and Van? An Honest Comparison

Cost, permits, access, time and labour weighed up, including the jobs where a skip is genuinely the better answer.

Read the Skip or Man and Van guide
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Duty of Care and Waste Transfer Notes

Why the person who produced the waste stays responsible for it, and the checks worth making before anyone loads a van.

Read the Duty of Care guide

Quick answers

If you read nothing else

The three things worth knowing before you arrange any collection, from anybody.

Check the carrier registration

Anyone taking waste as a business must be registered with the Environment Agency, and the register is public. If your waste is fly-tipped, having checked is your defence.

Read the duty of care guide

Separate what you can

Metal, clean timber, cardboard and green waste all cost less to dispose of when they are not mixed through general rubbish. A mixed heap is priced as its most difficult material.

Read the recycling and disposal guide

The council is sometimes cheaper

For a few items you can carry outside yourself, a council bulky collection usually costs less. For a car load of household waste, the tip is free.

Read the council waste services guide
  1. 1Tell us what you have and where it is
  2. 2We give you a price for the job
  3. 3We load it and clear the space

Lines are open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Messages sent outside those hours are answered the next working day.

Tell us what needs clearing

Send over a rough idea of what you have, or a photo from your phone, and we will come back with a price for the job. There is no obligation to go ahead.

Ask us for a quoteCall 0161 768 7848