Rubbish and recycling

Find your household rubbish bin collection day

Check the green rubbish bin or black sack collection day for your street.

Find out about recycling

Use our online directories to find your recycling collection days and your nearest recycling point and find information about what and where you can recycle and Community Recycling Centres.

Find out about household rubbish services

Information about household rubbish collections and how you can dispose of bulky refuse that's too big for your bin using our special uplift service or Community Recycling Centres.

Get information about commercial rubbish collection

Trade waste collection and recycling information for businesses.

How you can reduce and reuse waste

Ideas for you to help the environment by doing things like composting, switching to reusable nappies, reusing plastic bags and furniture.

Learn about waste

Book a waste talk, workshop or roadshow, or an educational visit to the Waste Education Cabin, play our online recycling games or apply for money for a local waste project.

You may also be interested in...

This website

Recycling Incentives

Find out about our new recycling incentives.

Street Care

Report dog fouling, graffiti, problems with litter bins and other street care services.

Other websites

Zero Waste Future

Learn more about how we will reduce the amount of rubbish going into landfill sites.

Zero Waste Scotland

More practical advice about how to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Greener Scotland

Advice on greener living from Scottish Government's one-stop website.