Recycling

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, ask us for a different size or report an unused or abandoned one.

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. Read our guidance on assisted collections.

Find out what business waste is. Learn your responsibilities as a business and why you need a Duty of care waste transfer notice.

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

You can order an extra wheelie bin for your garden waste, which we'll collect from your home every 2 weeks.

Find out what you can take to our recycling points and where they are.

There are 2 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.

Find out how to recycle your small electrical items, what to do with lithium batteries, and view a list of recycling points.

Find our carton or Tetra Pak recycling points in the city and how to get cartons ready for recycling.

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 a water butt.

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