FAQs - Recycling and waste

If you need additional blue bags or food waste liners you can order more online Recycling Items Form

If you have additional glass bottles and jars to recycle that you can’t fit in your box, please either hold onto these until your next collection or take them to your local glass bank. Unfortunately, we’re unable to provide additional boxes.

If you need to replace a damaged or broken box please complete the online form.

Deliveries are made to all households between November - April. 

They will be left within the boundary of your property, or at your usual bin collection point.

Houses across the road or further down the street can often be on different delivery routes. Therefore, you could receive your items at different times.

If you run out before your delivery you can order more online Recycling Items Form

We ask wardens to take delivery of bags for all residents or arrange for us to have access so that we can deliver them.

For any new housing sites with sections of the site that are still under construction, we will ask the developer to take the delivery and issue bags to residents.

If you run out before your delivery you can order more online Recycling Items Form

• If your collection point is usually at the end of the lane, we will place the bags there. 
• If you use a bunker we will leave the bags inside the bunker. 
• If you use a wheelie bin we will leave the bags next to the bin.

Your bags will be left on the door step.

No, blue bags and food waste liners are issued for household recycling only. All businesses have a duty of care to dispose of their waste appropriately through a commercial waste agreement with a registered waste carrier.

We deliver three rolls to every household between November - April .  

If you run out before your delivery you can order more online Recycling Items Form

There is no limit on the number of blue bags you can place for collection.

Blue bags are collected weekly.

Paper/Card - Newspaper/magazines, catalogues, telephone directories, junk mail, writing paper, shredded paper, envelopes, food and drink cartons, cereal boxes, cardboard boxes, toilet roll/kitchen roll tubes, egg boxes, ready meal sleeves

Plastic - Plastic bottles, yoghurt pots, margarine tubs, plastic punnets/ready meal trays, plastic coat hangers, plastic film

Metals - Food and drink cans, aerosols, jam jar lids, foil.

Have a look on the A-Z of recycling to see a full list of what goes in your blue bag.

If you run out before your delivery you can order more online Order Recycling Bags / Containers

You can sign up to receive email or text message reminders for your collection days. 

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If you have more blue bags than you need, please give them to family or friends that might need a further supply due to larger numbers in the household and therefore likely to have more items to recycle weekly. 

If you can’t find answers to your questions on this page, or on our A-Z of recycling, you may contact one of our recycling advisors for further advice and support. Simply email us using the link below and we’ll get in touch.

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If you or someone you know struggle to put their waste and recycling out for collection, we may be able to help with an assisted waste collection closer to their property.

An application is required and an assessment of the property before the service can be provided.

assisted waste collection

Visit My Recycling Wales to find out what happens to your recycling and black bags once collected.

Please see our A-Z of what you can recycle and where in Carmarthenshire.

a-z of recycling

Please check and follow the advice on our missed collections page, before reporting that your waste has been left behind.

missed collections