Mixed waste - Items we can take

The following items are all welcome in our skips and our team will happily recycle them for you:

  • Mixed glass
  • Soil
  • Mixed paper & Cardboard
  • Garden waste
  • Carpet
  • Wood
  • Hardcore & Rubble
  • Plastic
  • Textiles & clothes
  • Building Material
  • Metal

*          Mattress – Additional charge per item £20

*          Domestic upholstered furniture. Whole items only, for example, sofas, sofa beds, armchairs, footstools, futons, bean bags & sofa cushions.  Items may contain POPS (persistent organic pollutants) and must be placed on top of the skip to avoid mixing POPS waste with other waste. Additional charges per item apply – Sofa £40, Armchair £20

*          Plasterboard – Less than 10% of a mixed waste skip, must be pre-agreed, bagged separately and placed on top of the skip. More than 10% will require a skip solely for plasterboard.

 

Materials requiring specialist handling

Please give us a call if you have any of the below wastes. These should not be placed in a mixed or general skip, but we can provide a solution to collect these as separate items:

  • Asbestos
  • Fluorescent tubes
  • Food waste
  • Paint/Solvents
  • Fridge & Freezers
  • Clinical/Medical waste
  • Tyres/Rubber tracks
  • Railway sleepers/Telegraph poles
  • Burnt waste
  • Powdered waste
  • Household & garden chemicals
  • Televisions & Monitors
  • Gas bottles/Fire extinguishers/Birthday balloon cannisters
  • Oil & Fuel
  • Liquid waste
  • Mattresses