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Household waste - disposal sites
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Service Outline:
Any items which cannot be placed in your domestic bin or your recycling bins can be tipped or recycled at the Household Waste Recycling Centres (!). They are located at Colne -Corporation Street and Barnoldswick - West Close Road
Additional information: The HWRCs do not accept commercial waste. If you want to take household waste in a commercial type vehicle or trailer you will need to obtain a free permit. Apply online for your free permit or call 0845 0500 957.
Related services:
Contact details:
Lancashire County Council Waste Management
Telephone: 0845 0500 957
Service Availability:
The opening hours of all the HWRCs are: 8am - 7pm everyday. (362 days a year, closing only on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day)
Common Questions:
- Do I need to separate materials in the box?
- What if I have more material than will fit into the box?
- When should I put my recycling out?
- Why do my containers have to be out so early?
- Where should I put my Recycling Containers For Collection?
- Why do my recycling containers have to be left near the front pavement?
- My box lid has not been returned after the box has been emptied.
- Sometimes there is rubbish left in my box after emptying.
- What will happen with the green garden waste bin during the winter months?
- What if I already compost all my garden waste and don't need a green bin?
- I've heard that having a wheeled bin can increase the risk of burglary, as the criminals can assume that when the bin is left out I'm not at home?
- What if my wheeled bin is damaged or stolen?
- Do I own the wheeled bin/recycling boxes?
- Will the wheeled bin need cleaning?
- Will I have to put out the bin/box on collection day?
- Why do you want us to put our wheeled bins/boxes out at 7.30am?
- If I forget to put out my wheeled bin/box in time, what will happen?
- Why is my recycling collected at different times?
- How will elderly or disabled people manage?
- What about terraced houses/flats/multi-occupancy homes and houses with long drives?
- What if I have a large family and the 240 litre grey bin is not enough?
- How do I recycle items that I can't leave at the kerbside?
- What about the removal of bulky items - furniture and fridges etc?
- Can I put waste in black bin bags into my wheeled bin, or do I have to put the rubbish in loose?
- Which bin do nappies go in? I have young children in nappies and I won't have enough room in my rubbish bin.
Further Information:
- Doorstep collection
- Garden waste collection
- Composting at home
- Green box recycling
- Cardboard recycling collection
- Plastic bottle collection
- Refuse grey bin collection
- Real nappies
- Ordering bins, boxes and sacks
- Pink And Green Recycling Sacks
- Clinical waste collection service
- Special collection of large items
- Orange refuse sacks
- Assisted collection of rubbish and recycling
- Textile Recycling
- My Recycling
- LOOKING AFTER YOUR GREY REFUSE BIN
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