Read 2026-10-28
Business waste collection
The median price published here is £24.55 a lift for an 1100 litre general waste bin, the middle half of the readings sit between £20.58 and £26.53, and the whole spread runs £20.50 to £28. That is 6 figures read from 6 of 44 operators' own pages on 2026-10-28; the rest publish nothing at all. Tell us about your bins and commercial waste and recycling firms covering your area will quote you directly.
Source: UK Business Waste Collection Price Index: every row, with its source
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UK Business Waste Collection Price Index
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Every provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and the row says what that page published on the day we read it. 6 of 44 publish a figure; the rest are listed too, because how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here is a quote for your job: it is what other people advertise.
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 6 of the 44 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 38 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 14 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 253 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the median, quartiles and range of PUBLISHED per-lift prices for a business general waste bin by container size (240 litre and 1100 litre the two headline sizes), across UK council trade waste tariffs and private firms that publish one, normalised to one price per lift with the VAT basis stated (council trade waste is usually outside the scope of VAT; a private firm adds 20%) and the tariff year recorded; beside it the share of operators that publish any price, recycling lifts set against general waste lifts, and the trade sack price per sack
| Provider | Published figure | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| northdevon.gov.uk | £25.49 | 2026-10-28 | northdevon.gov.uk |
| Fees and charges | £26.04 | 2026-10-28 | Fees and charges |
| Trade Waste | Fees and Charges - Cleansing | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | £20.60 | 2026-10-28 | Trade Waste | Fees and Charges - Cleansing | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar |
| Commercial Charges | Mid Ulster District Council | £28.00 | 2026-10-28 | Commercial Charges | Mid Ulster District Council |
| Recycling Commercial Waste - Ards and North Down Borough Council | £23.60 | 2026-10-28 | Recycling Commercial Waste - Ards and North Down Borough Council |
| Business general waste collections | West Northamptonshire Council | £20.50 | 2026-10-28 | Business general waste collections | West Northamptonshire Council |
| General waste fees | Business waste fees | Cherwell District Council | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | General waste fees | Business waste fees | Cherwell District Council |
| Trade Waste Collection | Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Trade Waste Collection | Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council |
| nwleics.gov.uk | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | nwleics.gov.uk |
| Business Waste Collections, Blaby District Council | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Business Waste Collections, Blaby District Council |
| Our business waste and recycling service - Herefordshire Council | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Our business waste and recycling service - Herefordshire Council |
| Commercial waste and recycling charges - London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Commercial waste and recycling charges - London Borough of Richmond upon Thames |
| Caerphilly - Caerphilly County Borough | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Caerphilly - Caerphilly County Borough |
| Order wheelie bins for collection | Bath and North East Somerset Council | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Order wheelie bins for collection | Bath and North East Somerset Council |
| Commercial Waste Charges, Fylde Council | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Commercial Waste Charges, Fylde Council |
| Waste disposal, recycling and skips fees and charges | Argyll and Bute Council | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Waste disposal, recycling and skips fees and charges | Argyll and Bute Council |
| Trade Waste | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Trade Waste |
| Trade waste charges and payments | East Lothian Council | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Trade waste charges and payments | East Lothian Council |
- The median published figure is £24.55 across 6 readings, with the middle half between £20.58 and £26.53. (UK Business Waste Collection Price Index: every row, with its source)
- 6 of 44 providers read publish a price at all; 38 publish none. (UK Business Waste Collection Price Index: every row, with its source)
- The cheapest published figure is £20.50, by Business general waste collections | West Northamptonshire Council. (Business general waste collections | West Northamptonshire Council)
- The dearest published figure is £28, by Commercial Charges | Mid Ulster District Council. (Commercial Charges | Mid Ulster District Council)
Cite this page
“UK Business Waste Collection Price Index”, Business waste collection, https://businesswastecollection.co.uk/ (updated 2026-10-28). Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 6 of the 44 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 38 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 14 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 253 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the median, quartiles and range of PUBLISHED per-lift prices for a business general waste bin by container size (240 litre and 1100 litre the two headline sizes), across UK council trade waste tariffs and private firms that publish one, normalised to one price per lift with the VAT basis stated (council trade waste is usually outside the scope of VAT; a private firm adds 20%) and the tariff year recorded; beside it the share of operators that publish any price, recycling lifts set against general waste lifts, and the trade sack price per sack
Guides
Every figure sourced and dated.
- UK Business Waste Collection Price Index: every published figure
Every provider we read that publishes a figure for business waste collection, what it publishes, and the day we read it. 6 of 44 read.
- Who publishes a price, and who makes you ask
6 of 44 providers read for business waste collection publish a figure. These are the ones that do not.
- Commercial waste management: what a business must sort, keep and pay
Commercial waste management in the UK: the bins a business must separate, the paperwork it keeps for 2 years, and £20.50 to £28 a lift published.
- Commercial waste collection costs in the UK, per lift and per bin size
Commercial waste collection costs in the UK: £20.50 to £28 a lift for an 1100 litre general waste bin from the operators that publish, median £24.55.
Frequently asked
How much does a business waste collection cost per bin?
£20.50 to £28 a lift for an 1100 litre general waste bin from the six operators that publish one, median £24.55, read on 2026-10-28. What you pay depends on the bin size, how often it is emptied and what goes in it, so the table shows every reading and who published it. (UK Business Waste Collection Price Index: every row, with its source)
How many operators publish a price at all?
6 of the 44 read. The others answer with a quote form. They are listed in the table as publishing no price rather than dropped, because the share of a market that will not put a number on its own page is itself a finding. (UK Business Waste Collection Price Index: every row, with its source)
Where do these figures come from, and when were they read?
Each one is a sentence on the provider's own page, read on 2026-10-28 through our own fetch box and stored with the hash of the page's text, so the row can be checked against what was there that day. The row links to the page it came from. (UK Business Waste Collection Price Index: every row, with its source)
Is this a price for my job?
No. Every figure here is what a provider advertises on its own page for its own packages, not a quote for your work, and the spread from £20.50 to £28 is exactly why. Scope is what moves it. Ask for a price and you get one; this page is so you know what you are hearing when you do. (UK Business Waste Collection Price Index: every row, with its source)
Who answers an enquiry from this page?
Commercial waste and recycling firms covering your area. We pass your enquiry to them and they quote you directly; nobody else sees your details.
Sources
This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:
- The median published figure in the UK Business Waste Collection Price Index is 24.55 GBP across 6 sources' own pages (range 20.50 to 28 GBP), read 28 October 2026.
- The UK Business Waste Duties carries 6 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 1 to 3 year, read 27 October 2026.
- General waste fees | Business waste fees | Cherwell District Council
- Trade Waste Collection | Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council
- The URL you requested has been blocked
- nwleics.gov.uk
- northdevon.gov.uk
- Business Waste Collections, Blaby District Council
- Our business waste and recycling service - Herefordshire Council
- Commercial waste and recycling charges - London Borough of Richmond upon Thames