Recycling and Rubbish

Recycling collections from homes - Sandwell's range of recycling collections includes:

• Green box or green bag recycling
• Blue lid recycling
• Garden waste wheeled bin - garden waste collections are not taking place during the current collection service disruptions, go to our homepage for the latest information
• Bulky and large items

Rubbish collections from homes:

• Bins - reporting problems & getting a new bin
• Rubbish collections questions answered
• Find your rubbish collection day
• Bank holiday collection day changes

Recycling centres:

• The Household Recycling Centre, Shidas Lane, Oldbury has an extensive range of facilities for recycling
• There are over 60 recycling centres across the borough
• Find out what you can recycle and where

Trade waste

The recycling and waste services listed above are for Sandwell householders only.
We can offer a trade waste collection service for local businesses and traders.

Reduce, reuse, recycle at home

As well as using your recycling services, there's even more that you can do at home:

• Reduce the amount of rubbish that you create, including reducing food waste and using cloth nappies
• Reuse - tips on reusing, including reuse and return schemes
• Home composting

More information

• What happens to your recycling
• Recycle for Sandwell news
• Recycling educational resources
• Sign up to the reduce, reuse, recycle for Sandwell e-newsletter by emailing 'subscribe' to recycleforsandwell@sandwell.gov.uk

Recycling service improvements

The council is improving recycling, waste management and street cleansing services by implementing a Waste Improvement Plan. The overall aim of the plan is to maximise the potential for recycling and composting and to minimise the amount of waste that is sent to landfill.

Sandwell's Municipal Waste Management Strategy gives details of how Sandwell will meet the challenge of reducing rubbish in the borough.