Bulky Waste

Are you replacing your old sofa, fridge-freezer, small electrical item or other furniture?  Is it still in good condition or working order?  If so, it could be sent to another good home rather than landfill.

If you think your old furniture or electrical item is in good condition please consider re-use. Wirral-based charities will accept donations of unwanted furniture in good condition for refurbishment and re-sale in their shops.

Wirral Independent Recycling Enterprise (WIRE) (currently awaiting Charity Status)

Tel: 0151 638 669

www.wire-ltd.com/

Collects pre-loved furniture in good condition. 

British Heart Foundation (reg Charity No. 225971)

Tel: 0844 499 4173 or 0207 998 5500 to be connected to your local store.

Collects electrical goods in working order and good quality used furniture.

Or, why not advertise your items on Freecycle? 

Freecycle is easy to use and free!  The Wirral branch of Freecycle has 5626 active members already and is growing every day.  It's a non-profit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own areas – thus keeping good items out of landfill.  Visit their website at www.freecycle.org.uk

Duty of care

You may also consider using one of the many “man and a van” type services that frequently advertise in local papers and telephone service directories.  Please note that you have a duty to ensure that whoever takes your waste is required to have the necessary authority to transport and dispose of waste.

Always ask where the waste will be taken for disposal and obtain a written receipt. If you do not take reasonable precautions and your waste is subsequently discovered fly tipped you could be prosecuted and fined for failing in your duty of care.

Household Waste Recycling Centre

Items can also be taken free of charge to your local Household Waste Recycling Centre. Visit the Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority for details of your nearest Household Waste Recycling Centre. All Wirral sites accept furniture and electrical items.

ERIC Collections

If your items are not suitable for reuse you may wish to arrange a bulky waste collection. 

Wirral Council will come and collect your bulky items for a charge of £20 per visit (conditions apply), for up to 6 separate items.  Collections will be made within 10 working days.

Please Note: It is recommended that when paying by debit/credit card that you telephone Streetscene direct on 0151 606 2004 when requesting this service as a Customer Service Advisor will be able to arrange a suitable collection date for you as well as taking your payment ensuring a much quicker and efficient service.

Alternatively you can visit a Council One Stop Shop. Please note that payment by cash can only be taken at the Birkenhead One Stop Shop, however payment by debit/credit card or cheque is accepted at all One Stop Shops.

The Service is available to residents of Wirral for household waste only.

• Streetscene will advise whether your items are classed as 'Furniture' or 'White Goods'

• All items to be collected must be specified e.g. Table & 4 Chairs, or bed-base, mattress & chair 

• Items to be collected must be left outside your home (in the case of flats this must be on the ground floor), by 7am on the day of collection. (Collections will take place between 7am and 4pm - unfortunately it is not possible to specify a particular time).

• Some items will not be removed by the ERIC Service, such as builders waste.

• Businesses (including Charities) must make their own arrangements with a private Waste Contractor

Please see below for lists of items we can and cannot take:

ERIC furniture we can collect: aerials, beds (bed base, mattress & headboard counts as 3 items), bags/boxes of rubbish (4 bags count as one item, therefore max 24 per call, not rubble or other building materials), barbecues, blinds (less than 6ft), bird cage, bureaux, carpets, chairs, cupboards & chests, cushions & other soft furnishings (put in bags and collected as bags of rubbish), doors (not double glazed), downspouts (each spout is one item, plastic only), electric fires & wooden fire surround, dressing tables (mirrors must be taped-up), 3-piece suites (counts as 3 items), filing cabinets (wooden), gas fires, calor gas heaters (bottles must be removed), garden furniture (except cast-iron, which is classed as White Goods), vacuum cleaners, humidifiers, ironing boards, wooden or melamine kitchen worktops (less than 6ft long), music centres, planks (each plank is one item, max length 6 foot), pouffes, prams, radios, rugs, stools, snooker tables (children's only), sunbeds (without the tubes), swing-top bin, tables (not glass-topped), videos, wardrobes, wendy house, window blinds (less than 6ft).

ERIC Whites we can collect: bicycles, cast-iron garden furniture, cookers, filing cabinets (metal), domestic fridges, freezers, hobs, lawnmowers, lawn-rakes, microwaves, ovens, radiators (not storage or oil filled), heavy old-fashioned sewing machines, stainless-steel sink-tops, strimmers, washing machines, tumble dryers, televisions.

ERIC furniture/whites we cannot take: bathroom suites, 'belfast' sinks, boilers, building materials, boxes, cardboard & packaging, cement mixers, chipboard, coal bunkers, commercial fridges/freezers or other commercial kitchen equipment, double-glazed doors or windows, flags, door & window frames, fence panels, fish tanks, garden waste, garage doors or roofs, garden tools, gas bottles, gates, guttering, glass, hot water heaters, mirrors/mirrored doors, oil drums, paraffin heaters, pianos or organs, pipes, radiators (over 6ft in length), radiators (oil-filled or storage radiators), satellite dishes, sheds, stone sinks, tiles, fire-surrounds, skirting-boards, snooker tables (full-sized), staircases, stone or marble worktops, water tanks, water butts, wheelbarrows, wood.

Important: Please note that the above lists are not exhaustive, if the item you wish us to remove is not on the list, please call 0151 606 2004 during office hours (9:00am - 5:00pm Monday to Friday) and talk to one of our advisers.