Household waste and recycling collection

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• How your collection service works
• Other waste and recycling services

Important information: Due to the continued adverse weather conditions, Woking Borough Council has had to make alterations to its waste and recycling collection services. Find out more here.

In line with its Climate Change Strategy,  Woking Borough Council operates an alternate weekly waste collection service across the entire Borough, where general household waste is collected one week and recyclable materials the next.

How your collection service works

Two wheeled bins are issued to each household - a black wheeled bin for general waste and a blue-lidded wheeled bin for waste that can be recycled. A limited number of households that cannot store wheeled bins are provided with black sacks for general household waste and blue sacks for recyclables.

Full details about what can and can't go in your bins, plus a list of frequently asked questions are available on this site.

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Other waste and recycling services

• The Council also operates 24 recycling bring sites around the Borough.

• For households unable to home compost the Council provides a kerbside collection of garden waste.

• For items that cannot be reused, collections of bulky household waste can be arranged through the Council' special waste collection service. There is a charge for collections, with a maximum of seven items collected at one time.

• Woking Borough Council provides a weekly collection service for household clinical waste for residents who treat themselves in their own home.