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City of Edinburgh Council

Rubbish - household waste


Find out about our policy on excess waste

Find out more information about our policy on excess waste.

Find out about service disruptions to your waste and recycling collections

You can find out about what services and collections are running behind in you area. 

Find opening times for Community Recycling Centres

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

Request a collection/uplift of bulky waste items

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

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.


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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

Waste Services - service changes
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