Construction Waste Bins for London Sites Wheeled bins, roll-on-roll-off and enclosed containers, swapped on schedule with transfer notes.

Separate Bins Pay for Themselves

One mixed container is the most expensive way to run a site. Mixed construction waste is charged at the highest rate because it has to be picked apart at the transfer station; the same material separated at source is charged as a clean stream, and some of it is worth money rather than costing it.

On most London builds three containers is the sweet spot – inert, mixed, and one for whichever material your job produces in bulk. Adding a fourth rarely pays unless the volume is genuinely there.

• Inert only – concrete, brick, hardcore, tiles. Kept clean it is crushed into recycled aggregate. See rubble and hardcore collection.
• Plasterboard – must be kept apart by law; gypsum cannot go to landfill with biodegradable waste. See plasterboard collection.
• Metal – offcuts, ducting, cable, old radiators. This stream has a scrap value that offsets the container cost.
• Timber – clean, untreated wood is chipped for board manufacture; painted and treated timber is a separate grade.
• Mixed – everything that does not sort cleanly into the above.

Paperwork and Placement in London

A container on private land – inside the hoarding, on your own forecourt, in a car park – needs no council permission. The moment any part of it sits on the public highway, including a pavement or a parking bay, you need a permit from that borough, and the rules and prices differ between all 32 of them. We will tell you which case you are in before delivery rather than after.

Every collection produces a waste transfer note. As the waste producer the site must keep those for two years, and the Environment Agency can ask for them. If you want the tonnages and recovery rates rolled up for reporting, that is part of our construction site waste management service, and it feeds straight into a site waste management plan.