Additional bins, boxes or bags for waste
If you are struggling to cope with the amount of space you have
in your boxes and bins, we advise you first to refer to our
waste minimisation page.
Certain households qualify for additional bins, boxes or bags.
Below is an explanation of how many of each container a household
is allowed to have.
Black bins
All households are entitled to at least one standard black
bin assuming there is appropriate storage space or access to the
property. To qualify for an additional bin, you must have:
- 5 or more people living at the property
- Fewer than 5 people living at the property, but with special
requirements for one or more residents. Please contact us if you
think this may apply to your household. You may be asked to
complete a waste audit, which is a description of the types and
amounts of rubbish being produced.
To apply for an additional bin, please complete this
form and return to mjones@melton.gov.uk.
Recycling boxes
Households are typically issued with one green recycling box and
one grey recycling box. If you are consistently producing more
recyclable waste in a week than your box can hold, we will issue an
additional recycling box free of charge. In some cases we may
require further information to be able to able to issue this
additional box.
If you have excess recycling only occasionally, perhaps when
guests have visited, you are able to put carrier bags
of materials out next to your recycling boxes but only
if each bag contains either paper & cardboard
or glass bottles & jars
or plastic bottles or tins,
cans, aerosols, foil. Mixed bags can not be collected.
Brown bins
All households are entitled to at least one standard
brown bin assuming there is appropriate storage space or
access to the property and the house has a garden. If you have one
brown bin, you may request an additional bin by contacting Customer
Services. If you already have two bins, we will
not be able to issue an extra bin, although
you are able to purchase biodegradable bags and place them
out for collection next to your brown bin.
Bags
Bags are issued in place of wheeled bins in cases where a Waste
Management officer has deemed this necessary.
For extra bags, we have similar requirements to approve
delivery as we do for delivery of additional wheeled bins.
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