How to use your recycling bins or boxes
What to put into your recycling bins or boxes, what waste should be kept separate and where to put your box for collection
Find out how to use recycling bins or black boxes and information on how to recycle more.
What to put into your recycling bins or boxes, what waste should be kept separate and where to put your box for collection
If your rubbish, recycling or garden waste bin hasn't been collected, please wait until after 3pm on your collection day to let us know.
Get a new bin or box, replace a lost or damaged one, or ask us for a different size
What you can put in communal or shared recycling bins. These are the large recycling bins on streets or shared bins for blocks of flats.
If you physically can't move your bins or boxes, we may help you take your rubbish or recycling out.
Find out about the rubbish and recycling service we offer businesses and trades, and how waste can be disposed of legally.
As a charity, you may be entitled to free collections or access to our Hove Recycling Site. Find out how to apply.
Use this guide to find a material or item and find out how you can recycle it.
Find out more about getting a discounted composter or wormery
Find a list of our recycling points in the city.
There are two recycling sites - also called tips - one in Hove, off Old Shoreham Road and one in Brighton, off Wilson Avenue. They take household waste or recycling, electrical items, garden waste and some DIY waste. Find out how to get access to the sites.
We don't collect or accept fireworks, petrol, diesel, Japanese knotweed or Ragwort at our household waste recycling sites, also known as tips.
Where to take unwanted clothes, shoes and textiles, and how doing so supports the local community.
WEEE banks are recycling points where you can take small electrical items, such as toasters, kettles and hairdryers.
About our pick up service and information on how to dispose of large and electrical household items, sometimes known as bulky waste.
Our community composting schemes give local residents composting points where they can compost fruit and vegetable waste.
Find out more about getting a discounted composter or wormery
As a charity, you may be entitled to free collections or access to our Hove Recycling Site. Find out how to apply.