Business waste collection cost (6 figures)

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.

24.55 GBP Median published figure middle half 20.58 to 26.53 GBP
20.5 to 28 GBP Range a 7.5 GBP spread; quartiles 20.58 and 26.53
6 Published figures from 6 source pages, read 28 Oct 2026
6 of 38 Sources read that publish one 16% publish a figure at all
  1. Commercial Charges | Mid Ulster District Council28 GBP
  2. Fees and charges26.04 GBP
  3. northdevon.gov.uk25.49 GBP
  4. Recycling Commercial Waste - Ards and North Down Borough Council23.6 GBP
  5. Trade Waste | Fees and Charges - Cleansing | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar20.6 GBP
  6. Business general waste collections | West Northamptonshire Council20.5 GBP
Every published figure, highest first.median 24.55 GBP
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Commercial Charges | Mid Ulster District Council28 GBP
Fees and charges26.04 GBP
northdevon.gov.uk25.49 GBP
Recycling Commercial Waste - Ards and North Down Borough Council23.6 GBP
Trade Waste | Fees and Charges - Cleansing | Comhairle nan Eilean Siar20.6 GBP
Business general waste collections | West Northamptonshire Council20.5 GBP

6 of the 38 named sources read in full publish a figure; 32 publish none, read 28 October 2026.

Every figure, with its source

One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.

The sentence each figure was read from (6)

Read in full, publishes no figure

32 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

Methodology

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 38 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 32 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 20 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

253 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

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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.

6 of the 38 named sources read in full publish a figure; 32 publish none, read 28 October 2026.

Cite as: "businesswastecollection.co.uk UK Business Waste Collection Price Index", updated 2026-10-28, https://businesswastecollection.co.uk/datasets/uk-business-waste-collection-price-index/.

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24.55 GBP

median published figure, UK Business Waste Collection Price Index, across 6 sources, read 28 October 2026

Source: businesswastecollection.co.uk UK Business Waste Collection Price Index

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Questions this data answers

What does each UK council trade waste service and private waste firm publish per lift, per week and per year for a business general waste bin (140, 240, 360, 660 and 1100 litres), and how many publish nothing?

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.

Where do the figures in the UK Business Waste Collection Price Index come from?

Every figure is quoted from its source's own page and dated (last read 28 Oct 2026). 38 named sources were read and 6 publish a figure; the 32 that publish none are recorded as not published, never estimated.

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