Which councils collect cartons from home?
As of 24 Oct 2026. Worked out from each council's own published rules.
Drinks and food cartons, like milk, juice and soup cartons. Here's which councils collect them from your home, and where they go if yours doesn't.
England
258 of 291 councils collect cartons from home.
Collected from home (258)
- Adur
- Arun
- Ashfield
- Ashford
- Babergh
- Barnet
- Barnsley
- Basildon
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Blaby
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Bolsover
- Bolton
- Boston
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Bracknell Forest
- Bradford
- Braintree
- Breckland
- Brent
- Brentwood
- Bristol
- Broadland
- Bromley
- Bromsgrove
- Broxbourne
- Broxtowe
- Buckinghamshire
- Burnley
- Bury
- Calderdale
- Cambridge
- Camden
- Canterbury
- Castle Point
- Central Bedfordshire
- Charnwood
- Chelmsford
- Cheltenham
- Cherwell
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Chesterfield
- Chichester
- Chorley
- City of London
- Colchester
- Cornwall
- Cotswold
- County Durham
- Coventry
- Crawley
- Croydon
- Dacorum
- Darlington
- Derby
- Derbyshire Dales
- Doncaster
- Dorset
- Dover
- Dudley
- Ealing
- East Cambridgeshire
- East Devon
- East Hertfordshire
- East Lindsey
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Staffordshire
- East Suffolk
- Eastbourne
- Elmbridge
- Enfield
- Epping Forest
- Epsom and Ewell
- Erewash
- Exeter
- Fenland
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Fylde
- Gateshead
- Gedling
- Gloucester
- Gravesham
- Great Yarmouth
- Greenwich
- Guildford
- Hackney
- Halton
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Harborough
- Haringey
- Harlow
- Hastings
- Havering
- Herefordshire
- Hertsmere
- High Peak
- Hillingdon
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Horsham
- Hull
- Huntingdonshire
- Hyndburn
- Ipswich
- Isle of Wight
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Kingston upon Thames
- Knowsley
- Lambeth
- Lancaster
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Lewes
- Lewisham
- Lincoln
- Liverpool
- Luton
- Maidstone
- Maldon
- Malvern Hills
- Manchester
- Mansfield
- Medway
- Melton
- Merton
- Mid Devon
- Mid Suffolk
- Mid Sussex
- Middlesbrough
- Milton Keynes
- Mole Valley
- Newark and Sherwood
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Newham
- North Devon
- North East Derbyshire
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Hertfordshire
- North Kesteven
- North Lincolnshire
- North Norfolk
- North Northamptonshire
- North Somerset
- North Tyneside
- North Warwickshire
- Norwich
- Nottingham
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Oadby and Wigston
- Oldham
- Oxford
- Pendle
- Peterborough
- Preston
- Reading
- Redbridge
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Redditch
- Reigate and Banstead
- Ribble Valley
- Richmond upon Thames
- Rochdale
- Rochford
- Rossendale
- Rother
- Rotherham
- Rugby
- Runnymede
- Rushcliffe
- Rutland
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Sefton
- Sevenoaks
- Sheffield
- Shropshire
- Solihull
- Somerset
- South Cambridgeshire
- South Derbyshire
- South Gloucestershire
- South Hams
- South Holland
- South Kesteven
- South Norfolk
- South Oxfordshire
- South Ribble
- South Tyneside
- Southend-on-Sea
- Southwark
- Spelthorne
- St Albans
- St. Helens
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Stevenage
- Stockport
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Stroud
- Sunderland
- Surrey Heath
- Sutton
- Swale
- Tameside
- Tandridge
- Teignbridge
- Telford and Wrekin
- Tendring
- Tewkesbury
- Thanet
- Three Rivers
- Thurrock
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Torridge
- Tower Hamlets
- Trafford
- Tunbridge Wells
- Uttlesford
- Vale of White Horse
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Warrington
- Warwick
- Watford
- Waverley
- Wealden
- Welwyn Hatfield
- West Devon
- West Lancashire
- West Lindsey
- West Northamptonshire
- West Oxfordshire
- West Suffolk
- Westminster
- Westmorland and Furness
- Wigan
- Wiltshire
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wirral
- Woking
- Wokingham
- Wolverhampton
- Worcester
- Worthing
- Wychavon
- Wyre
- Wyre Forest
- York
Not collected from home (33)
| Council | Where they go instead |
|---|---|
| Amber Valley | Recycling centre |
| Basingstoke and Deane | Banks or drop-off points |
| Bassetlaw | Recycling centre |
| Brighton and Hove | Banks or drop-off points |
| Cannock Chase | Rubbish bin |
| East Hampshire | Rubbish bin |
| Eastleigh | Rubbish bin |
| Fareham | Rubbish bin |
| Forest of Dean | Banks or drop-off points |
| Gosport | Rubbish bin |
| Harrow | Rubbish bin |
| Hart | Banks or drop-off points |
| Havant | Rubbish bin |
| Hounslow | Recycling centre |
| Isles of Scilly | Rubbish bin |
| Kirklees | Rubbish bin |
| Lichfield | Recycling centre |
| New Forest | Banks or drop-off points |
| North West Leicestershire | Recycling centre |
| Northumberland | Recycling centre |
| Plymouth | Recycling centre |
| Portsmouth | Banks or drop-off points |
| Rushmoor | Rubbish bin |
| Slough | Recycling centre |
| South Staffordshire | Recycling centre |
| Southampton | Rubbish bin |
| Stafford | Recycling centre |
| Swindon | Recycling centre |
| Tamworth | Recycling centre |
| Test Valley | Banks or drop-off points |
| Torbay | Recycling centre |
| West Berkshire | Banks or drop-off points |
| Winchester | Rubbish bin |
Not enough data yet: Barking and Dagenham, Cumberland, Dartford, Hartlepool, North Yorkshire.
Scotland
28 of 31 councils collect cartons from home.
Collected from home (28)
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- City of Edinburgh
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee City
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Glasgow City
- Highland
- Inverclyde
- Midlothian
- Moray
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Perth and Kinross
- Scottish Borders
- Shetland Islands
- South Ayrshire
- Stirling
- West Dunbartonshire
- West Lothian
Not collected from home (3)
| Council | Where they go instead |
|---|---|
| Orkney Islands | Rubbish bin |
| Renfrewshire | Rubbish bin |
| South Lanarkshire | Rubbish bin |
Not enough data yet: Na h-Eileanan Siar.
Wales
19 of 21 councils collect cartons from home.
Collected from home (19)
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bridgend
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Ceredigion
- Conwy
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Gwynedd
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Monmouthshire
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newport
- Pembrokeshire
- Powys
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Torfaen
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wrexham
Not collected from home (2)
| Council | Where they go instead |
|---|---|
| Caerphilly | Rubbish bin |
| Swansea | Recycling centre |
Not enough data yet: Isle of Anglesey.
Northern Ireland
11 of 11 councils collect cartons from home.
Collected from home (11)
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Ards and North Down
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Belfast
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Derry City and Strabane
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Lisburn and Castlereagh
- Mid and East Antrim
- Mid Ulster
- Newry, Mourne and Down
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Sources
- Each council's own website. Our item pages and council pages link the council page each answer comes from.
- Find your council on GOV.UK