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.
Rubbish
How to get rid of large and electrical items, check your bin collection days and report missed collections.
Bins
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 wheelie bins
Where you should put your rubbish or recycling wheelie bins on collection days and what you can put in them
How to use communal rubbish bins
What you can put in our communal or shared bins for non-recyclables. These are the large shared black rubbish bins on streets, or shared medium and large 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.
Find barbecue bins near the beach
Barbecue bins near our beaches are yellow and have signs showing what they’re for. Find out where they are in our map of barbecue bins.
Garden waste
Garden waste collections
You can order an extra wheelie bin for your garden waste, which we'll collect from your home every 2 weeks.
Environmental problems
What to do about dumped items
Let us know if you see dumped items left in a public place, also known as a fly-tip. We'll aim to collect it within 2 days of it being reported.
Report waste problems caused by a business
Let us know about waste problems caused by a business. This could be a business using household communal bins for its waste, its bins causing an obstruction or not clearing up customer litter.
Disposing of large items
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.
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.
Donating unwanted items
If you no longer need an item and it's in good condition, you could give it away to someone who could use it.
Hazardous waste
Get your household clinical waste collected
Types of clinical waste collection, what can be collected and how to book a collection.
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.
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.