Blaenau Gwent

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council (BGCBC) provides a weekly kerbside-sort collections service for recycling. This means it collects recyclable materials in separate containers.

It collects:

• food waste every week, from a green caddy using caddy liners provided by the Council for free, which can be collected from outlets throughout the borough. Residents may also choose to use their own single-use plastic bags instead of the Council-provided caddy liners;
• dry recycling every week, from either a Trolibocs unit comprising one 40-litre box and two 55-litre boxes, or separate boxes and reusable blue bags, allowing residents to separate their:
   
  • glass bottles and jars,
  • metal cans, tins, aerosols and foil, and plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, and
  • paper;
     
• cardboard every week, from a large reusable white bag;
• household batteries every week, from a small reusable white bag. Residents may collect a bag from their nearest Community Hub, which is located centrally in all local libraries managed by the Aneurin Leisure Trust. Despite the bag being made available, residents may choose to continue putting their old batteries out for collection in single-use plastic bags, if they have any to use up; and
• small electrical items and textiles every week, in separate clear plastic bags.

BGCBC also collects:

• absorbent hygiene products (AHP) every week, from single-use yellow sacks, if residents have registered for this service; 
• garden waste every two weeks, from a large reusable green bag; and
• non-recyclable waste every three weeks from a black wheelie bin or up to four single-use black sacks.

The Council provides a bulky household waste collections service for large items. To find out how much this service costs, or to book a collection, residents should visit the Council’s website.

The Council manages two Household Waste Recycling Centres in the county. Residents should visit the Council's website to check opening times, site rules, if they need a permit to attend in a large vehicle, and if they need to book an appointment before they visit a site.

Visit Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council's website.