Recycling
Household Recycling Centres in the Malvern Hills area are managed by Worcestershire County Council and not Malvern Hills District Council. They can be contacted on 01905 763763.
Request New Recycling Bins or Sacks
You can report issues with your bin collections using our online reporting service. You can use this system 24/7 to report missed collections, request sacks/bins, sign up to our Garden Waste service and much more. Or you can call us on 01684 862490 between 8am and 4pm Monday to Friday.
How we collect your recycling
Your household recycling is collected fortnightly between 7am and 5pm- even if your recycling is collected in sacks your collection.
Please place your green bin out for collection by 7am and put items in loose - do not use a bin liner or put recycling in bags.
If you have difficulty placing your recycling bin out for collection we offer an Assisted Collection Service
Households that are unsuitable for a recycling bin are provided with a Recycling Sack Collection.
Check what you can recycle in your green bin on the Let's Waste Less website
Compost bins
You can order discounted compost bins, delivered direct to your front door.
Other types of compost bins are also available.
Order a compost bin from the Get Composting website or call 0844 571 4444.
Find out more about composting on the Let's Waste Less website.
Needles (sharps) disposal
Individuals are responsible for disposing of clinical waste in a responsible way. This should be done by using a sharps bin and taking this to a disposal point. There are five pharmacies within the Malvern Hills district that will accept sharps boxes up to 9 litre, including purple lidded or “toxic” sharps. These are listed below, as well as other pharmacies who will accept 1 litre boxes.
Sharps bins are plastic containers designed for the safe disposal of hazardous waste. Sharps bins are available on prescription from your doctor. They can take needles, empty syringes, empty insulin cartridges and lancets. Some patients use ‘B-D safe clip' devices to remove the needle from the syringe. This does not need to be done if the needle and syringe are put straight into the sharps bin.
Where patients are prescribed sharps boxes by their GP they can take the full boxes back to their GP for disposal provided the practice is registered with Worcestershire County Council to accept this waste.
A list of sites within Malvern Hills (and surrounding districts) where sharps boxes can be taken to, can be found here: Clinical waste (sharps) | Worcestershire County Council
Please note, this is managed by Worcestershire County Council, as the Waste Disposal Authority, and Malvern Hills District Council has no involvement in the approval of pharmacies.