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 pothole

  Report potholes on A roads, motorways and local roads to the council

• Recycling collections

  Find out if your council collects recycling, how to recycle household waste such as mobile phones, computers, packaging and green waste

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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

Closed organisation: 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