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What Can and Cannot Go in Your Skip

Nearly everything that comes out of a house, a garden or a building job can go straight in. A short list cannot, either because it is hazardous or because it causes problems at the sorting facility. Here is both lists, and the reasoning behind the second one.

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What You Can Put in a Skip

  • Food waste and packaging
  • Domestic household waste
  • Green garden waste
  • Old furnishings
  • Carpet and other upholstery
  • Wood
  • Empty, clean paint tins
  • Plastic
  • Metal
  • Bricks and other building rubble
  • Tiles and ceramic
  • Old bathroom and kitchen fittings

What You Cannot Put in a Skip

  • Electrical appliancesfridges, freezers, TVs, washing machines
  • Batteries (all types)AA and AAA batteries, lithium batteries
  • Gas cylinderspropane bottles, butane canisters, camping gas
  • Tyres
  • Mattresses
  • Wet or liquid paint
  • Solvents, fuels and oilspetrol, diesel, engine oil, white spirit
  • Hazardous chemicalscleaning chemicals, industrial chemicals, corrosive substances, pesticides
  • Plasterboard (in mixed skips)drywall sheets, gypsum boards, plasterboard offcuts
  • Asbestos
  • Clinical or medical wasteneedles, sharps, medical dressings
  • Artificial grass
  • Fluorescent tubes and light bulbs
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Smoke alarms
  • Vapes and e-cigarettes
  • Aerosol cansspray paint cans, deodorant sprays, cleaning sprays
  • Explosives or ammunition
  • Contaminated insulation

If any of these turn up in your skip, we may not be able to collect it, or additional charges may apply, so it is always worth checking first.

Not Sure About an Item?

Ring 01302 490 249 before it goes in. A one-minute phone call is considerably cheaper than a rejected load or an uplift charge on collection day.

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Overfilling

Everything has to sit level with the top rail. That is not us being awkward: a skip heaped above the rail cannot be sheeted, and an unsheeted load is not legal on the road. If we arrive and it is over, we cannot lift it until it comes back down, so if you are between two sizes take the bigger one.

For more common questions, see our FAQs.