Recycling and Waste in Fareham

The recycling and refuse collection teams are here to help you manage your waste. A comprehensive variety of services are available to enable you to successfully recycle and dispose of the waste your household produces. 

Recycling and refuse are collected in wheeled bins, on an alternate collection system. Please put your bin out by 6am on collection day, or the evening before. Please take it back in as soon as possible after emptying.

My bin was missed

If your bin (or garden waste sack) was not emptied on the due day, report it here.

Other complaint or compliment

If you would like report another problem, or have a compliment, please visit this page.

Other materials

Cardboard can now be recycled in the paper banks around the Borough. It can also be put in your blue top bin.

Aerosols can now be recycled. 

 

Stickers are being put on refuse and recycling bins around the Borough, to remind people what materials they can recycle at home. Refuse bin sticker (58 Kb) . Recycling bin sticker (93 Kb) .

 

What to recycle in your blue top bin (328Kb)

 

For further information about household waste and recycling, please select a link below:

• Unforseen service changes
• Find your collection day
• Recycling at home
• Recycling Banks Map
• Household refuse, including special collections                                                               
• Glass recycling
• Textile recycling
• Garden waste & home composting
• Shredded Paper
• WasteSavers for trade waste
• Household Waste Recycling Centres
• Frequently Asked Questions
• How to dispose of different types of waste - an A to Z guide
• Swap Shop
• Love Food Hate Waste

 

Almost all households in Fareham have a recycling bin at home, for paper and card, plastic bottles and tins and cans; and one reusable sack for garden waste.

 

Extra garden waste can be collected if residents buy additional bags. We empty the bins on an alternate collection system - refuse one week and recycling and garden waste the next. This system has helped Fareham have one of the highest recycling rates in the country, at 42% (2007-08 figure).

 

A full copy of the Refuse and Recycling Collection Policy (169 Kb) is available .

 

The refuse and recycling Service Standards and Performance Targets (104 Kb) are also available .

 

If you would like to know more about the service or have a problem with the service please complete our online refuse and recycling form.  Alternatively, please contact us by email: customerservices@fareham.gov.uk or telephone 01329 236100.