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Waste and recycling

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New waste service

TMBC now collect more materials for recycling from home as below:

  • Separate Food Waste
  • Glass, Plastics, Cans and Cartons
  • Paper and Card / Cardboard
  • Textiles, Batteries and small electrical items (WEEE)
  • Opt-In chargeable fortnightly garden waste collections in new brown bin
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Visit TMBC’s Recycle for all website to read all about the service and what you need to know.

See the TMBC Recycle for All website for more information >>
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New garden waste service

From 30 September 2019 TMBC introduced a new opt-in chargeable garden waste collection service. Charging for garden waste will help to improve recycling collections from your home to include glass and plastics. If you wish to receive this service you will need to subscribe on the TMBC website.

See the TMBC Garden Waste website for more information >>
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Saturday Waste Collection

The Saturday bulky waste service is provided for the disposal of household waste, including bulky items. In this service you can take your waste to a parked refuse freighter at a number of locations across the borough.

Please note that the schedule runs on a 4-week cycle. When a month has five Saturdays, the service is not normally run on the fifth Saturday, apart from after Easter & Christmas Bank Holidays.

There is a TMBC Bulky Waste Collection in the layby in Fen Pond Road (opposite the Church) and one in Borough Green in the Dene Lodge In Car Park.

SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Ightham – Fen Pond Road (in layby opposite Church)

11th January: 08:00 to 09:00
1st February: 08:00 to 09:00

Borough Green – Dene Lodge (Car Park)

11th January: 09:00 to 10:00
25th January: 08:00 to 09:00
1st February: 09:00 to 10:00
15th February: 08:00 to 09:00

The following items cannot be collected by the Saturday Service:

  • Builders’ waste, concrete and similar waste
  • Vehicle parts – including tyres, engines or batteries
  • Oil, paint or other chemicals
  • Asbestos
  • Plasterboard
  • Soil, rubble or bricks
  • Glazed windows or toughened glass
  • Gas Bottles and Fluorescent tubes

We also provide a service which can collect electrical items and scrap metal for recycling. A smaller vehicle will park next to the Saturday freighter at all sites. It will collect any of these items for recycling:

  • Small household appliances (kettles, electric toothbrushes, alarm clocks, etc)
  • Large household appliances (cookers, fridge/freezers, washing machines, etc)
  • Electronic games & toys
  • TV’s, monitors and computers
  • Batteries, including car batteries
  • All metals
See TMBC website for more information >>