We provide information, advice and free disposal service for clinical waste from private households in the borough.
Clinical waste collections are carried out by a separate collection crew to your household collection:
- Sharp instruments for example, needles etc. are collected on either the first or third Friday each month depending on collection round.
Non-hazardous clinical/medical waste can be collected as part of the normal domestic waste collection, i.e. it can be placed in your wheeled bin. It can only be considered hazardous due to certain medical conditions, whether there is a risk of the transmission of a communicable disease or by the type of waste, e.g., hypodermic needles.