Recycling, rubbish, streets and roads

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Services

• Find out your rubbish collection day

  Check your council's website to find out when your rubbish will be collected

• Report an abandoned vehicle

  You can report an abandoned vehicle like a dumped car to the local council

• Apply for special collection of large waste items

  Arrange a special collection for large waste items - most councils will collect things like old sofas, fridges or washing machines for a fee

• Report a missed bin collection

  Check your council's website to report a missed bin collection

• Reporting fly-tipping, large-scale dumping or other waste crimes

  You can report fly-tipping to your local authority and large-scale dumping and waste crime to the Environment Agency or Crimestoppers.

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Guidance and regulation

• Storing and depressurising nominally empty nitrous oxide canisters: RPS 289
  • Guidance
  • 4 February 2025
  • Environment Agency

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News and communications

19 September 2018 — News story

How to rent as a student

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021)

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Organisations

• Department
  for Environment,
  Food & Rural Affairs
• Ministry of Housing,
  Communities &
  Local Government
• Department
  for Transport
• Home Office

• Environment Agency