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