Resource Recovery

The following list details what items are suitable and not suitable for a hard waste service.

Items suitable for a hard waste service include:

• Furniture including carpets (must be rolled up) and mattresses (maximum of 2 per service).
• Refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, dishwashers & small kitchen appliances.
• Domestic household Items: e.g. toys, bikes, empty clean paint tins (with lids removed) and car rims (not tyres).
• Scrap metal.
• Electrical items (anything with a cord).
• Timber no longer than 2m, free of nails and bundled.
• Cardboard flattened & tied in bundles of 10 or less.

Items NOT suitable for a hard waste service include:

• General household waste or clothing.
• Green waste (plant clippings).
• Hazardous waste (e.g. asbestos, chemicals, batteries, ammunition, explosives and gas cylinders).
• Car bodies/car parts or tyres.
• All glass  (e.g. broken glass, mirrors, windows or panels of sheet glass).
• Paint tins containing wet paint.
• Construction/building materials, concrete, rocks or dirt.
• Fibreglass.
• Porcelain, ceramic or terracotta.
• Polystyrene.

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For more information please download our information brochure.