Check it's really clinical waste
Please make sure you only register for the clinical waste collection service if you have waste that’s infectious or hazardous.
You don’t need to register for clinical waste collections to dispose of the following non-infectious items:
- menstrual products like towels and tampons
- condoms
- disposable gloves and aprons
- incontinence pads
- disposable nappies
- wound dressings
- catheter bags
- syringes used for food products (no needles)
- stoma bags
- PEG tubes and feeding equipment
Please double-bag these items and put them in your normal household rubbish.
Worried you don’t have enough space for them in your wheelie bin or sack? You can ask us to review your rubbish limit.
Infectious waste
It’s really important not to put:
- infectious clinical waste
- cytotoxic or cytostatic waste produced during chemotherapy and some other medical treatments
in your household rubbish. These types of waste can by highly hazardous. Please check with your health care provider if you’re unsure.
We’ll collect it separately from your household waste using a dedicated collection vehicle. We’ll leave replacement clinical waste bags but not sharps bins. You’ll need to get a new sharps bin from your healthcare provider or pharmacy.
Find out which types of waste we need to collect from you separately on our clinical waste and sharps bins page.
Register for clinical waste collections
Please choose either a one-off collection or a weekly collection using the links below.
One-off clinical waste collections
Do you only produce a small amount of clinical waste? Or do you have a sharps bin that needs collecting?
If yes, you can ask us for one-off collections as and when you need them.
- You’ll need to register using the button below each time you need a collection.
- We don’t provide replacement bags with this service. You’ll need to get these from your healthcare provider or pharmacy.
- We don’t leave replacement sharps bins. You’ll need to get a new sharps bin from your healthcare provider or pharmacy.
Register for a one-off clinical waste collection
Weekly clinical waste collections
Do you need more regular collections of orange or purple clinical waste bags? If yes, register for a weekly collection.
- We give you the same number of replacement bags as we’ve collected from you.
- After you register, you’ll get a confirmation letter from us with your collection start date.
Register for weekly clinical waste collections
Make changes to an existing clinical waste service
If you need to make changes to your existing clinical waste collection, please use our Contact us form.
Get in touch if:
- You want to change the location your clinical waste is left for collection.
- You’re moving house.
- You’re going on holiday or into hospital and need to pause but not cancel your collections. If you don’t let us know and no waste is left out for several weeks, we may assume you no longer need collections and cancel your service.
- You no longer need clinical waste collections permanently and want to cancel your service