From Monday 5 August 2024, the council will provide a weekly kerbside small electrical and household battery collection service.
This service is currently for household kerbside properties and not available for communal properties.
How to recycle small electrical items
Place your small electrical item(s) in an open standard-sized carrier bag. Please do not tie the bag as the collection crew need to look into the bag to check that the correct items are presented. Then place it next to your recycling or domestic waste bin by 6.30am on your collection day.
Please don’t put the bagged items in your bins as they won’t be collected.
We cannot accept bags that are not left open, that are ripped and that contain items with sharp edges.
Items do not need to be in working order.
Small electrical items you can recycle:
- alarm/clock radios
- blender bases
- calculators (remove batteries)
- cameras (remove batteries)
- CD drives/hard drives
- coffee machines
- computer keyboards
- cordless phones
- digi-boxes
- drills (without drill bits)
- DVD players
- electric shavers
- electric toothbrushes and chargers
- electric whisks and mixers
- extension cables
- hairdryers
- hair straighteners
- hair trimmers
- irons
- kettles
- lamps (no light bulbs)
- modems
- paper shredders
- personal stereos (batteries removed) and small stereos
- phones and mobile phones (including base stations and handsets)
- printed circuit boards
- radios
- remote controls (batteries removed)
- scanners
- small handheld vacuum cleaners
- speakers
- toasters
- torches (batteries removed)
- toys
- TV aerials and aerial boosters
Microwaves and items with screens, such as laptops and televisions, cannot be collected at the kerbside as part of these collections. They should be taken to one of the city’s Household Waste Recycling Centres.
For larger electrical items please book a Bulky Waste collection.
Battery collections
You can recycle your old household batteries on either your domestic bin or recycling bin collection day with our kerbside collection service.
Present your batteries for collection in a small clear plastic bag, such as a sandwich bag, and place it on top of your household rubbish bin on collection day.
These bags need to be tied up, so batteries do not move inside the bag. We will only accept batteries that are not leaking and that are intact.
Do not place batteries inside your recycling or domestic bin as this can cause fires.
We will collect:
- 9V batteries
- AA batteries
- AAA batteries
- Button batteries
- C batteries
- D batteries
- Mobile phone batteries
We won’t collect:
- 12-volt leisure battery
- Batteries with trailing wires
- Corroded batteries
- Lithium batteries
- Ride-on car and motorbike batteries
- Ride-on toys batteries
- Sealed lead acid/gel
Please take these to our Household Waste Recycling Centres.
This service is one of more than 40 projects funded by the Material Focus - Recycle Your Electricals campaign.