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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

16,312 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London2,438 collection servicesGreater Manchester725 collection servicesKent707 collection servicesEssex701 collection servicesHampshire652 collection servicesWest Midlands616 collection servicesWest Yorkshire593 collection servicesDevon437 collection servicesSurrey403 collection servicesHertfordshire400 collection servicesLancashire371 collection servicesSomerset337 collection services

Garden & Green Waste

11,721 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,310 collection servicesHampshire564 collection servicesKent528 collection servicesEssex523 collection servicesSurrey401 collection servicesWest Yorkshire398 collection servicesGreater Manchester396 collection servicesWest Midlands383 collection servicesDevon365 collection servicesHertfordshire305 collection servicesNorfolk295 collection servicesWest Sussex285 collection services

Construction & Renovation

14,880 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,796 collection servicesEssex715 collection servicesKent701 collection servicesHampshire641 collection servicesGreater Manchester598 collection servicesWest Yorkshire550 collection servicesWest Midlands543 collection servicesSurrey430 collection servicesHertfordshire386 collection servicesLancashire373 collection servicesDevon369 collection servicesStaffordshire325 collection services

Specialist & Hazardous

5,177 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London474 collection servicesEssex297 collection servicesWest Midlands247 collection servicesKent233 collection servicesWest Yorkshire231 collection servicesGreater Manchester225 collection servicesHampshire220 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire148 collection servicesLancashire144 collection servicesStaffordshire132 collection servicesMerseyside125 collection servicesLincolnshire118 collection services

Electrical & WEEE

5,402 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London905 collection servicesWest Midlands280 collection servicesGreater Manchester256 collection servicesEssex235 collection servicesKent207 collection servicesWest Yorkshire204 collection servicesHampshire181 collection servicesSurrey138 collection servicesLancashire133 collection servicesHertfordshire124 collection servicesDevon111 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire105 collection services

Commercial

7,294 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,383 collection servicesEssex370 collection servicesKent320 collection servicesGreater Manchester318 collection servicesWest Midlands293 collection servicesHampshire262 collection servicesWest Yorkshire262 collection servicesHertfordshire206 collection servicesSurrey189 collection servicesDevon144 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire144 collection servicesLancashire136 collection services

Recyclables

8,132 registered collection services across the UK take this waste.

London1,043 collection servicesWest Midlands493 collection servicesGreater Manchester417 collection servicesWest Yorkshire331 collection servicesKent319 collection servicesEssex307 collection servicesHampshire286 collection servicesLancashire229 collection servicesSouth Yorkshire228 collection servicesDevon183 collection servicesStaffordshire179 collection servicesSurrey179 collection services