Our Household Waste Recycling Centres (tidy tips) accept:
- aluminium cans
- car batteries
- cardboard, including corrugated cardboard
- carpet & underlay (any amount permissible, but disposal is limited to 2 visits per household per year) - you need a waste permit for disposal. Request your permit when booking a slot to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
- cooking oil
- DIY waste - you need a waste permit for disposal. Request your permit when booking a slot to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
- electrical appliances
- fire extinguishers (small domestic only)
- fire extinguishers (large domestic only, limited to 1 per household per year) - you need a waste permit for disposal. Request your permit when booking a slot to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
- gas bottles (small)
- gas bottles (large, limited to 2 per household per year) - you need a waste permit for disposal. Request your permit when booking a slot to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
- glass bottles and jars
- hard plastics at Ampthill, Biggleswade and Leighton Buzzard only (how we deal with hard plastics)
- household batteries (no lithium batteries)
- lightbulbs, including fluorescent tubes
- newspaper and paper
- green garden waste
- household furniture e.g. beds/ divans, chest of drawers, tables, wardrobes etc…
- mattresses (limited to 2 mattresses per household per year) - you need a waste permit for disposal. Request your permit when booking a slot to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
- paint and paint tins
- printer ink cartridges
- scrap metal
- shoes and textiles
- soil (anything over 3 x 100-litre bags and up to a maximum of 6 bags) - you need a waste permit for disposal. Request your permit when booking a slot to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre. If you have more than 6 bags, you should consider hiring a skip
- TVs, laptops, mobile phones, PCs, tablets, and Sat Navs. Please ensure all personal data has been removed before disposal
- tyres (any amount but a charge of £11.30 per tyre will apply) - you need a waste permit for disposal. Request your permit when booking a slot to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
- used engine oil (maximum 20 litres per visit) - you need a waste permit for disposal. Request your permit when booking a slot to visit a Household Waste Recycling Centre
- vapes
- white electrical goods, including fridges and freezers
- wood
Please note: When a container is full, we must partition it off until such time it can be emptied. Similarly, if several containers are full and waiting to be emptied there may be occasions when we must close the site. We try to minimise these closures, but sometimes they're unavoidable.
Bulky waste
If you have large/bulky items, which are too difficult to get to the tip, then you can arrange a bulky waste collection. We can also collect fridges and freezers. There are charges for these collections.