Waste & Recycling Services

Reuse and Recycling Centres: Some furniture, such as tables, chairs, sofas with fire safety labels and white goods (cookers and washing nachines mainly) can be taken for reuse at our Reuse and Recycling Centres. Bexley Council is working in partnership with Respond based in Thamesmead. Respond works with social services, homeless groups, housing associations and refugee teams to meet the need for good quality low cost furniture and electrical goods for those in need. The Respond Furniture Centre allows people to select their own goods and to turn a house into a home. Site staff and Respond staff will select what is suitable for reuse.
Special Collections: Bexley Council provides a special collection and disposal service for bulky household items such as TVs, furniture, cookers, washing machines, etc. which are too large to be collected as part of your weekly waste collection. Find out more details here.

You can donate unwanted clothes, textiles and shoes to your local charity shops.
Reuse and Recycling Centres: Old clothes and pairs of shoes can be accepted at either site, which are then sent to Developing Countries or reprocessed. Please do not leave pillows, duvets or carpets. Clothes and shoes are also collected at some of the mini recycling sites.

Reuse and Recycling Centres: We accept breeze blocks, bricks, general hardcore, concrete and rubble.

Please ensure that the material is not bagged and note that we do not take tiles, wood. This material is cleaned and graded and used again in the construction industry. We have a separate area for wood or asbestos.

Reuse and Recycling Centres: Non-mechanical tools, such as saws, hammers etc. are accepted at both centres. These will be refurbished and distributed to Developing Countries.

Most gas bottles can be returned to the store where they were purchased.
Reuse and Recycling Centres: Only when it is not possible to return them you can deposit any gas bottles/cylinders at either of our Reuse and Recycling Centres. Please ask a member of staff for assistance, who will take them to a designated area. Under no circumstances put them in the general household containers.

Reuse and Recycling Centres: We accept all asbestos cement products, including sheet asbestos, at either of our sites. Please ask a member of staff for assistance when arriving at the centre.

Reuse and Recycling Centres: This is collected, refined and used again in industry. Please ensure that you deposit the container in the tank provided. Please do not contaminate with used vegetable oil.

Reuse and Recycling Centres: All spectacles and reading glasses (even broken and damaged) can be deposited at both Reuse and Recycling Centres. These are sorted and distributed for reuse in the Developing Countries. Please note that sunglasses are not accepted.

If you have enough wood, you could build your own home composter. Find out more details here.
Reuse and Recycling Centre: Alternatively, you can dispose of your timber waste, including offcuts, pallets and fencing, at either centre. This is turned into chipboard and used in the construction industry. Please note that we do not accept chipboard or MDF in our household wood or timber bay.

Reuse and Recycling Centre: Please dispose of in the household waste bays.