The council will collect bulky household waste

The Council will collect bulky household waste such as beds, couches, chairs on a specified day and date within 5 working days of your request. This must booked through Access Bolton on 01204 336632 and a charge of £15 will be made per visit for this service.

From the 1st July 2007 we have to comply with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Waste Directive (WEEE); and therefore we will no longer be able to collect items of electrical equipment.  The WEEE Directive is designed to make the producers of electrical equipment responsible for financing the collection, treatment, and recovery of waste electrical equipment, and by obliging distributors to allow consumers to return their waste equipment free of charge.

We will collect:

  • Carpets
  • Children's Toys
  • Empty paint tins and other empty DIY containers
  • Garden Furniture
  • Household and free standing furniture
  • Household packing cases
  • Ladders
  • Lino
  • Mattresses
  • Old bikes

We will not collect:
  • Asbestos
  • Bricks
  • Broken up laminate flooring
  • Car Batteries
  • Car Engines
  • Car Tyres & Wheels
  • Cardboard boxes
  • Cast Iron Baths
  • Clothing
  • Computers (including monitors)
  • Concrete and Concrete posts
  • Construction waste
  • De-humidifiers
  • Dismantled bathroom suites (except cast iron baths and any tiles)
  • Dismantled fitted kitchen furniture
  • Dismantled Greenhouses
  • Dismantled pianos and organs (without iron frame)
  • Dismantled sheds and garages
  • Fencing
  • Garden waste
  • Garage doors
  • Gas bottles
  • Gas & Electric Cookers
  • Glass & plastic bottles and cans
  • Internal and external house doors
  • Lawn mowers
  • Oil
  • Oil tanks
  • Old central heating boilers and cylinders
  • Paper
  • Paving stones or slabs
  • Petrol or other fuel
  • Plaster
  • Radiators
  • Small items of electrical equipment
  • Soil
  • Stereo units
  • Sunbeds
  • Stone
  • Tarmac
  • Televisions
  • Tiles
  • Waste from installation of new heating system
  • Window frames and related waste
  • Wood (large amount)
  • Wood (broken down amounts only)
  • Pianos (unless dismantled)

Fly tipping is an arrestable offence with a maximum fine of £50,000 for non-hazardous waste and an unlimited fine for hazardous waste. Anyone committing, about to commit or who has committed any fly tipping offence may also face imprisonment for up to 5 years.

We take fly tipping very seriously as it spoils the environment for everybody and costs Council Tax payers a lot of money to remove. Our enforcement team will not hesitate to take action, so if you do not want to pay the charge to have the item removed, or it is an item we will not collect, we suggest you take it to your nearest Household Waste Recycling Centre, which will accept almost all domestic bulky waste items. Follow this link to find your nearest centre.