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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

16,015 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London2,402 collection servicesGreater Manchester711 collection servicesKent695 collection servicesEssex692 collection servicesHampshire636 collection servicesWest Midlands602 collection servicesWest Yorkshire591 collection servicesDevon435 collection servicesHertfordshire399 collection servicesSurrey397 collection servicesLancashire365 collection servicesSomerset327 collection services

Garden & Green Waste

11,351 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,289 collection servicesHampshire536 collection servicesKent512 collection servicesEssex505 collection servicesWest Yorkshire389 collection servicesGreater Manchester385 collection servicesSurrey381 collection servicesWest Midlands373 collection servicesDevon356 collection servicesHertfordshire298 collection servicesNorfolk283 collection servicesWest Sussex278 collection services

Construction & Renovation

14,712 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,783 collection servicesEssex707 collection servicesKent699 collection servicesHampshire628 collection servicesGreater Manchester593 collection servicesWest Yorkshire544 collection servicesWest Midlands535 collection servicesSurrey424 collection servicesHertfordshire385 collection servicesLancashire371 collection servicesDevon366 collection servicesStaffordshire322 collection services

Specialist & Hazardous

5,103 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London463 collection servicesEssex297 collection servicesWest Midlands241 collection servicesKent229 collection servicesWest Yorkshire228 collection servicesGreater Manchester220 collection servicesHampshire217 collection servicesLancashire144 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire144 collection servicesStaffordshire128 collection servicesMerseyside122 collection servicesLincolnshire117 collection services

Electrical & WEEE

5,334 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London898 collection servicesWest Midlands271 collection servicesGreater Manchester254 collection servicesEssex237 collection servicesKent205 collection servicesWest Yorkshire203 collection servicesHampshire179 collection servicesSurrey137 collection servicesLancashire130 collection servicesHertfordshire125 collection servicesDevon110 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire104 collection services

Commercial

7,234 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,369 collection servicesEssex366 collection servicesGreater Manchester320 collection servicesKent317 collection servicesWest Midlands287 collection servicesWest Yorkshire262 collection servicesHampshire259 collection servicesHertfordshire205 collection servicesSurrey191 collection servicesDevon145 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire145 collection servicesLancashire137 collection services

Recyclables

8,040 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,033 collection servicesWest Midlands486 collection servicesGreater Manchester412 collection servicesWest Yorkshire326 collection servicesKent313 collection servicesEssex305 collection servicesHampshire278 collection servicesLancashire229 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire226 collection servicesDevon180 collection servicesSurrey178 collection servicesStaffordshire176 collection services