Home Environment and planning Waste and recycling Who to contact about a bin collection Your district or borough council is responsible for your bin and household waste recycling collections.They are also responsible for:replacement wheelie bins, recycling boxes, nets and sackshousehold garden waste collectionsbulky waste collectionsqueries relating to missed wheelie bin and recycling collectionsqueries relating to materials collected in your recycling collectionspayments for garden waste collectionssharps bins used to dispose needles and syringesFind your district councilClinical wasteYou will need to arrange a special collection for the disposal of any household clinical waste. This can include: human tissueblood and other bodily fluidsswabs and dressingssyringes, needles or other sharp instruments Clinical waste must not be placed in your general waste bin.If you need to dispose of clinical waste, please contact your doctor's surgery or local health centre to request a sharps box or clinical waste sack.Request a clinical waste collectionContact your district council to arrange collection of:yellow sharps boxes for medical syringesContact your doctor’s surgery or local health centre to arrange collection of:yellow clinical waste sacks for any waste contaminated with blood or other bodily fluids Help us improve this page Hide content Was this page helpful? Yes It was helpful, but Please select a reasonthere's a broken link it's hard to understand it's incorrect it's outdated it's too long Other No Please select a reasonit didn't answer my question it's not detailed enough it's hard to understand it's incorrect it's outdated it's too long Other Details Email address We’ll only use this to ask for more detail if we need to.