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Rubbish

How to get rid of large and electrical items, check your bin collection days and report missed collections.

Bins

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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