If you live in a house or a flat within a house, your service may include...
Recycle your textiles by booking a free home collection with TRAID. As part of a textile collection, you can also donate unwanted small/medium-sized electricals.
Garden waste subscription service. Garden waste can only be collected from properties that have signed up to the collection service.
If you live on an estate or in a flat with communal bins, your service may include...
Recycling
Black communal bin | Collections vary
Recycling
Your council can provide you with a bag to collect your recycling
Rubbish
Green communal bin with green lid | Collections vary
Food waste recycling coming soon
See below details
Textile and electronics recycling
Recycle your textiles and electronics by booking a free home collection with TRAID
Food waste
Rollout of the service will begin in mid‑January 2026 in private housing blocks, with collections starting the week after you receive your caddies.
For residents living in flats above shops, the council will begin dry mixed recycling collections and food waste collections in early February 2026.
Textiles and electronics
Recycle your textiles by booking a free home collection with TRAID. As part of a textile collection, you can also donate unwanted small/medium-sized electricals.
If you live in a flat above a shop, your service may include...
Rubbish
Black bin bags | Collected weekly
Dry mixed recycling coming soon
For residents living in flats above shops, the council will begin dry mixed recycling collections in early February 2026
Food waste recycling coming soon
For residents living in flats above shops, the council will begin food waste collections in early February 2026
You can recycle...
Tins and cans
Plastic bottles
Plastic pots, tubs and trays
Glass bottles and jars
Aluminium and foil
Food and drink cartons
Foil trays
Newspapers
Wrapping paper
Yoghurt pots
You can't recycle...
Crisp packets
Plastic film
Polystyrene
Bubblewrap
Food waste
Lightbulbs
Clothing and textiles
Garden waste
Garden waste subscription service. Garden waste can only be collected from properties that have signed up to the collection service. Subscribers receive weekly collections (fortnightly in winter) and a 270‑litre capacity per collection (three 90‑litre canvas sacks) as standard, for an annual fee.
An additional three sacks and three tags can be requested via the council’s website if required. To find out more or sign up to the service, Dispose of unwanted household items that are too large or too heavy for normal waste collections using our bulky waste collection service. To book a collection, you will need to log in to (or register for) My Account. You can book a collection and check what items we collect here.
Bulky waste
Dispose of unwanted household items that are too large or too heavy for normal waste collections using our bulky waste collection service. To book a collection, you will need to log in to (or register for) My Account. You can book a collection and check what items we collect here.
Useful information
Your local reuse and recycling centre
West Drayton Waste, Railway Sidings, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, UB7 7QT
Or you can visit:
Harefield Civic Amenity Site, New Years Green Lane, Harefield, UB9 6LX
A-Z of recycling
You can use our A-Z search to find out if something can be recycled and how to recycle it properly.
