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Waste collection by type

Start from what you need taken away rather than from the service that takes it.

Each waste type below groups the materials carriers list against it, and the counties shown are the ones where we hold enough registered collection services to be worth comparing. The counts are businesses that have told us they take that waste — a waste-carrier registration is a legal permission to move waste, not a statement about what a business collects, so the two are kept separate throughout the site. Every listing is cross-checked against the Environment Agency public register before it appears.

Household & General

14,895 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London2,273 collection servicesKent669 collection servicesGreater Manchester652 collection servicesEssex644 collection servicesHampshire572 collection servicesWest Midlands569 collection servicesWest Yorkshire544 collection servicesDevon405 collection servicesHertfordshire378 collection servicesSurrey371 collection servicesLancashire345 collection servicesNorfolk307 collection services

Garden & Green Waste

9,924 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,182 collection servicesHampshire457 collection servicesKent449 collection servicesEssex442 collection servicesGreater Manchester353 collection servicesWest Yorkshire340 collection servicesSurrey335 collection servicesWest Midlands328 collection servicesDevon301 collection servicesHertfordshire266 collection servicesNorfolk256 collection servicesLancashire235 collection services

Construction & Renovation

13,917 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,721 collection servicesEssex679 collection servicesKent668 collection servicesHampshire586 collection servicesGreater Manchester575 collection servicesWest Midlands510 collection servicesWest Yorkshire506 collection servicesSurrey406 collection servicesHertfordshire371 collection servicesLancashire355 collection servicesDevon334 collection servicesStaffordshire306 collection services

Specialist & Hazardous

4,894 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London443 collection servicesEssex286 collection servicesWest Midlands234 collection servicesKent223 collection servicesWest Yorkshire219 collection servicesGreater Manchester218 collection servicesHampshire206 collection servicesLancashire142 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire139 collection servicesStaffordshire117 collection servicesMerseyside116 collection servicesHertfordshire114 collection services

Electrical & WEEE

4,990 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London858 collection servicesWest Midlands256 collection servicesGreater Manchester235 collection servicesEssex222 collection servicesKent201 collection servicesWest Yorkshire194 collection servicesHampshire175 collection servicesLancashire127 collection servicesSurrey126 collection servicesHertfordshire118 collection servicesDevon99 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire99 collection services

Commercial

6,994 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,331 collection servicesEssex353 collection servicesKent314 collection servicesGreater Manchester311 collection servicesWest Midlands279 collection servicesHampshire249 collection servicesWest Yorkshire247 collection servicesHertfordshire201 collection servicesSurrey184 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire140 collection servicesDevon139 collection servicesLancashire136 collection services

Recyclables

7,630 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London998 collection servicesWest Midlands469 collection servicesGreater Manchester383 collection servicesWest Yorkshire312 collection servicesKent307 collection servicesEssex294 collection servicesHampshire261 collection servicesLancashire222 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire216 collection servicesSurrey171 collection servicesStaffordshire166 collection servicesDevon162 collection services