 Bins, waste and recycling
For help with waste collection in Cheshire East, you can find everything you need to know online. Here you can also find tips on reducing your household waste, and more about our street cleansing and flytipping policies.
Recycling and bin collections help
Check your bin collection date on this section of our website, or find out what waste goes where.
Household Waste Recycling Centres
Need to visit one of our household waste recycling centres (HWRCs)?
You can find details of our sites and opening hours, as well as our permit scheme, on our website.
If you need to visit one of our sites – Crewe, Alsager, Knutsford or Macclesfield – during a weekend or bank holiday, you’ll need to book a slot before you arrive. You'll also need to use this booking system if you'd like to visit our mobile HWRC service that's in place for the Bollington, Poynton and Middlewich areas.
Changes to our Household Waste Recycling Centres from September 2025
If you are already a regular user of our HWRCs you may have noticed some changes to the provision of our Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) services. We have:
- Introduced a ‘meet and greet’ service at all our HWRC sites to ensure a smooth experience for anyone visiting our sites
- Opened our sites for an extra hour – seven days a week from April to September.
- Allowed the donation of medical and IT equipment
We will also be introducing automatic number plate recognition (ANPR cameras) to ensure our sites are used fairly across the borough.
Garden Waste Recycling Scheme
- You will need to opt-in to the Garden Waste Recycling scheme to use your garden bin to recycle your green waste and will pay an annual subscription fee for your bin to be collected.
- Subscriptions are £69 per garden bin per year, with a 25% reduction in the fee available for those receiving qualifying benefits.
- Once subscribed, you will be sent a welcome pack containing your subscription sticker, which will have your address and unique subscription number on it.
- Read more and subscribe using the link below.
Recycling: Leave it Loose
Please make sure that your recyclable items are placed into your silver recycling bin clean, dry and loose and not in bags or boxes. This makes it quicker and more efficient for us to process at the recycling plant.
You can place the following items in your silver recycling bin:
- Paper and cardboard
- Glass jars and bottles
- Tin cans and drinks cans
- Soft plastic items
Have you thought about making your own compost at home?
You can find lots of information and advice about reducing household waste – including top tips for composting at home.
Composting is a low-cost, natural process that transforms your kitchen and garden waste into a valuable and nutrient rich food for your garden.
With the right knowledge and tools, it's easy to make and easy to use.
Research has found that around 40% of the food waste in the average household waste bin could have been composted.
How to dispose of hazardous waste safely
Vapes
Do not put vapes in any bin. Did you know that vapes contain a battery and if binned vapes can cause a fire? You can return vapes to the shop you purchased them from, check when you buy.
Binned vapes put the public and our workforce in danger.
Gas Canisters
Do not put gas cannisters in any bin. Gas canisters must be returned to the gas canister supplier where it was purchased. Please ensure that they do not go into your bin as they can explode and cause fires. Do not put the public or our workforce in danger.
Medical needles
Never place needles in your bins. Recycling & garden waste is often sorted by hand (and sometimes waste is sorted this way too). Any sharps such as needles & syringes pose a danger to our teams. Place needles in the sharps bin provided for you to use.
Used batteries
Don't put batteries in any of your household bins as they can cause fires in our vehicles and at the waste transfer station.
You can take your used batteries to shops and supermarkets, or they can be taken to a household waste recycling centre. Please keep the public and our workforce safe, and don’t bin batteries.
Unwanted electricals- simply recycling
Please do not put electrical items in any of your household bins. Electrical items can cause a fire in our vehicles and at the waste transfer station.
- If your electrical item is in a safe useable condition, you can either donate to a charity shop (check before you donate) or offer your item on a reuse community site.
- You can enquire whether your electrical item is repairable.
- You can take broken or unwanted electrical items back to where you purchased them if they have a bring back scheme - you will need to check when you buy.
- Alternatively, unwanted or broken electrical items can be taken to a household waste recycling centre.
Please keep the public and our workforce safe and do not put these into your bin.
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