City of Edinburgh Council

Rubbish - household waste

Find your household rubbish bin collection day

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

Find out about household rubbish collections

Find information about household green wheelie bin, black sack and communal rubbish bin collections.

Community Recycling Centres

Find out how to dispose of refuse that's too big for your bin at our Community Recycling Centres. 

Book a special uplift

Find out how to dispose of refuse that's too big for your bin using our special uplift service and book an uplift using our online form.

Find out about assisted collections

If you need help putting your bin out we can help. 

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.


You may also be interested in...

This website

Waste education

Find out how to book a talk at our Waste Education Cabin or apply for a Waste Action Grant to do a 'reduce, reuse, recycle' project.

Other websites

Zero Waste Future

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

Zero Waste Scotland

Fine more advice on how to reduce, reuse and recycle

Greener Scotland

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


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Waste services - general enquiries

Services for Communities

33 Murrayburn Road, Edinburgh, EH14 2TF

Tel: 0131 529 3030

Fax: 0131 469 5149

Email: waste@edinbur
gh.gov.uk

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