If you're recycling everything you can and using the food waste collection service, you should have enough space in your rubbish bin. You can also take excess rubbish to the Garth Road Household Reuse and Recycling Centre.

Eligibility

You may be eligible for a larger bin if you have a standard wheelie bin (180 litres) and one of the following is true:

• you live in a household of five or more
• you produce more non-recyclable waste because of a medical condition

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Request a larger wheelie bin for rubbish (this link opens in a new tab)

After clicking the link above, you need to:

• enter your postcode and click "Go"
• select your address and click "Continue"
• under the "More services" heading, click "Request a larger refuse container" — if you're using a mobile device, you'll find this near the bottom of the page; if you're using a larger screen you'll find it on the right-hand side of the page
• follow the instructions on the screen

What happens next

We will check the information you provide in your request to help us make an assessment, and may visit you to make sure that you are recycling as much as possible. If after our visit you still cannot fit your non-recyclable waste into the standard bin you may qualify for a larger bin.

What you can put in a larger wheelie bin

You must not put hazardous clinical waste in your rubbish bin, such as used syringes, and items contaminated with infectious body fluids. We provide a separate clinical waste service for this.

You can put non-hazardous items in your rubbish bin such as sanitary towels, nappies and incontinence pads (also known as sanpro waste). You may consider reusable real nappies they are:

• easy to use
• comfortable
• environmentally-friendly
• cost effective

Approximate dimensions of wheelie bins for rubbish