Rubbish and recycling | Sevenoaks District Council

Rubbish and recycling

View your collection day

View your rubbish, recycling and garden waste collection day...

Christmas and New Year waste collections

You don’t miss a waste and recycling collection over the festive period, but most collections will take place later than usual...

What to put in your recycling and waste bags

Find out what you can recycle and put out as waste every week for collection...

Changes to your recycling and waste collection service

From April 2026, we will introduce improvements to waste collections. We'll increase the items we collect for recycling while making our collections more convenient for residents, cost-efficient and better for the environment…

BIG Waste Conversation

Residents share their views on our waste collection services…

Report a missed collection

How to report a missed rubbish or garden waste collection...

Garden waste collection

How to dispose of grass, leaves and other garden waste with our garden waste collection service...

What to put in your garden waste

Find out what to put in your garden waste collection...

Where to buy garden waste sacks

Find your nearest location...

Christmas tree collections

There are several options to recycle your real Christmas tree after this year’s festivities have ended...

Book a large item collection

How to book a collection, what we collect and what we can't collect...

Household Waste Recycling Centres

Find your nearest centre, when it's open and what you can and can't bring...

Business waste and your duty of care

If you operate any form of business, you have a legal responsibility to safely and legally dispose of any waste produced from your business...

Home composting

Purchase a discounted compost bin...

Recycling sites for glass, textiles and cardboard

We provide more than 40 local recycling facilities for glass, paper, card and other materials...

Fly-tipping

How to report incidents of fly tipping and those responsible...

Assisted rubbish collection

Help for elderly and disabled residents to carry their rubbish and recycling sacks to the boundary of their property...

Doorstep collections for unwanted clothing, footwear and household items

We are working with Anglo to collect residents' unwanted clothing, footwear and household items so they can be reused...

Nappies

Disposable nappies cannot be recycled and must be bagged and put in with your black waste sacks….

Clinical waste collection

Arrange for domestic clinical, or medical waste, collection...

Street care and cleaning

Street cleaning in the Sevenoaks District and report a street that has an unacceptable level of litter...

Vehicle seizures

We can seize vehicles and their contents if we believe they have or will be used to commit waste crime...

We are an Environment Agency registered waste carrier