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Recycling

Find out how to use recycling bins or black boxes and information on how to recycle more.

Recycling collection

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 

Report a missed bin or box 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 or different sized bin or box

Get a new bin or box, replace a lost or damaged one, or ask us for a different size

How to use communal recycling bins

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.

Get help with rubbish and recycling: assisted collections

If you physically can't move your bins or boxes, we may help you take your rubbish or recycling out.

How to dispose of business and trade rubbish and recycling

Find out about the rubbish and recycling service we offer businesses and trades, and how waste can be disposed of legally.

Charity rubbish and recycling

As a charity, you may be entitled to free collections or access to our Hove Recycling Site. Find out how to apply.

Recycling A to Z

Recycling A to Z

Use this guide to find a material or item and find out how you can recycle it.

Garden waste

Buy a composter for food and garden waste

Find out more about getting a discounted composter or wormery

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Recycling points, sites or tips

Recycling points

Find a list of our recycling points in the city.

What you can take to our recycling sites and where to find them

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.

Waste we can't collect or accept at our recycling sites

We don't collect or accept fireworks, petrol, diesel, Japanese knotweed or Ragwort at our household waste recycling sites, also known as tips.

Recycle clothes and shoes

Where to take unwanted clothes, shoes and textiles, and how doing so supports the local community.

Recycle small electrical items

WEEE banks are recycling points where you can take small electrical items, such as toasters, kettles and hairdryers.

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Disposing of large items

Getting rid of large and electrical household items

About our pick up service and information on how to dispose of large and electrical household items, sometimes known as bulky waste.

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Composting

Join a community composting scheme

Our community composting schemes give local residents composting points where they can compost fruit and vegetable waste.

Buy a composter for food and garden waste

Find out more about getting a discounted composter or wormery

Charity

Charity rubbish and recycling

As a charity, you may be entitled to free collections or access to our Hove Recycling Site. Find out how to apply.

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