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