Land Fill
Please note, wheelie bins should be presented from 6 am on the day of collection.
Replacement Bins
Replace a black bin if it is broken.
If your black bin does need replacing it will be replaced with a 180-litre black bin. Charnwood Borough Council now only distribute 180-litre black bins as they feel this is adequate for most households and will reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and encourage recycling.
Your damaged bin will be taken away, and a replacement will be supplied.
Requesting a black bin delivery
If your bin has gone missing, or if you have moved into a new-build property and there isn't a black bin, please use the link below to order a delivery.
click the link bellow
Recycled
Please note, wheelie bins should be presented from 6 am on the day of collection.
Feed Your Green Bin
Glass
Bottles - Lids will be taken, please screw them back on
Jars - Lids will be taken, please screw them back on
Metals
Clean foil
Drink cans
Empty aerosol cans
Food tins
Metal biscuit or chocolate tins
Plastics
Carrier bags and packaging film
Detergent bottles
Egg cartons
Clear food trays, fruit punnets including the lids
Margarine & ice cream tubs
Shampoo and shower gel bottles
Yogurt pots
Paper and Cardboard
Books (softback and hardback - try to reuse or donate where possible)
Cardboard boxes (please flatten the boxes and remove any sticky tape, strings or polystyrene)
Cardboard toilet and kitchen rolls
Catalogues
Clean pizza boxes
Envelopes
Food and drink cartons (commonly known as TetraPak)
Magazines
Newspapers
Shredded paper
Wrapping paper (but not the metallic type)
Yellow pages
What Not To Recycle
Black plastic
Black bin liners
Blocks of polystyrene
CD and DVD cases (or the discs themselves)
Ceramic dishes
Cooking oil tins
Dirty boxes or paper contaminated with food
Drinking glass
E-cigarette batteries (Please contact Leicestershire County Council for more information)
Electrical appliances
Files and folders with metal components
Fireworks and firework boxes
Food
Handbags
Hard plastics such as coat hangers, storage boxes, children's toys, Tupperware containers
'Jiffy' bags
Kitchen paper
Metallised food and drink pouches, including pet food and soft drinks
Metal kitchen items such as pots, pans, cutlery, baking trays.
Metal tubes, such as tomato puree
Mirror or window glass
Nappies (please place in general waste)
Paint tins
Photographs
Plastic furniture
Plastic plant pots and seed trays of any colour
Printer cartridges (check packaging to see if they can be refilled - some charities will recycle them for you)
Pyrex
Shoes
Toys
Spectacles
Sweet wrappers and crisp packets
Textiles, tissues, wallpaper
Small plants pots and seed trays
Wallpaper
Garden Compostable
Please note, wheelie bins should be presented from 6 am on the day of collection.
Feed Your Brown Bin?
Grass cuttings
Leaves
Small twigs (up to 50mm)
Hedge trimmings
Raw fruit & vegetables directly from the garden
Weeds and old garden or houseplants
Flowers
Please do not put any of the following in the brown bin:
Wood ash (biodegradable and non-biodegradable)
Plant pots/wire ties/seed trays
Plastic, glass or metal
wood shavings
Gravel or stones
Soil or turf
Logs and thick branches
Meat waste and bones
Fish or cooked food
Animal bedding
For an annual fee the council will issue you with a 240-litre brown wheelie bin and empty it every fortnight (apart from a two-week period over Christmas).
The year-round service is easy to join and costs £40 if you pay by annual direct debit. If you pay by any other method, the charge is £45 per year.
Charnwood Borough Council already have more than 32,000 people who use the service and in 2018/19 collected 10,900 tonnes of garden waste which was turned into compost or reused on farmland.
If your brown bin is damaged and needs replacing, please email cleaner.greener@charnwood.gov.uk
or call
01509 634563.
For further details regarding the Brown Bin Service..
New customers
Existing customers
Existing customers - ordering more bins
Existing customers - change of address
Cancelling your subscription
Report a damaged bin
Order a replacement bin
click the link bellow