Recycling rate
Total waste per person
Residual waste per person
Recycling Service
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council operates a weekly co-mingled recycling collection service.
Using clear recycling bags, the service collects cardboard, glass bottles and jars, tins and cans, plastic bottles, polystyrene, pots, tubs and trays and cartons. The number of recycling bags a resident can put out weekly is unlimited.
Paper is also collected, and the council asks residents to put this in a separate bag to avoid contamination. Batteries are collected in a separate orange bag, which can be placed inside any of the clear recycling bags on the day of collection.
Garden waste is collected weekly from early March until early November and fortnightly from early November to late February, in the same recycling bags by a green waste vehicle, while residual waste is presented in black refuse bags or wheelie bins (dependent on the area) and is collected fortnightly.
There is a separate collection for food waste, which is collected weekly from large exterior caddies. Smaller kitchen caddies are provided by the council with biodegradable bags to line both bins. Additional bags are available on request.
Bulky household waste, restricted to furniture and small WEEE, is collected on request, with three items being collected at a time for a charge of £11.70. Bulky household items can be taken to one of the council's Community Recycling Centres free of charge.
There are six recycling centres across the county at Aberdare, Ferndale, Dinas, Treforest, Llantrisant and Treherbert.

Household waste recycling centres in Rhondda Cynon Taf
In total
All materials

tonnes of waste was recycled
Savings
Selected materials

saved by recycling instead of disposal
Climate change impact
Selected materials

tonnes of CO2 emissions was avoided
Top 5 UK recycling destinations
1 | Biogen, Aberdare, Wales |
12,467t Organic Waste |
2 | Llantrisant Recycling Centre, Llanharan, Wales |
11,128t Rubble and aggregate |
3 | Llantrisant Recycling Centre, Llanharan, Wales |
8,449t Organic Waste |
4 | Project Yellow Recycling Limited, Llanharan, Wales |
7,858t Rubble and aggregate |
5 | Day Aggregates Ltd, Bristol, England |
7,104t Incinerator Bottom Ash |
Where is your recycling going to?
Top 10 countries (selected materials)

Where is your recycling going to?
Top 10 countries (selected materials)













