What to do with household waste
Find out how to reduce, recycle and dispose of your household waste.
Rubble
Reduce your waste
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Other options
Rubble will be accepted as a part of your household's DIY waste allowance.
If your household allowance has been exceeded, you will be charged to dispose of rubble.
Rubble includes construction and demolition materials such as stone, rubble, clay, concrete, bricks, blocks, sand, tiles, paving slabs, and ceramic bathroom suites. There will be no charge for crockery or clay/terracotta flower pots.
Visitors wishing to dispose of rubble based products mixed with other waste types (e.g. tiles with plasterboard attached) must separate them prior to visiting the HWRC so they can be disposed of separately. The removal of tiles from plasterboard may be made easier if soaked in water.
Cost and how to pay
Additional rubble that exceeds your household’s DIY waste allowance will be charged at £3 for each standard rubble bag or part bag, up to a maximum of 53.5 x 82cm (when laid flat), filled so that the waste is contained and can be safely lifted.
We can currently accept payment by card only at all HWRCs.
Safe disposal
Rubble should be brought to the site bagged and filled so that the waste is contained and can be safely lifted. Sites have a dedicated container for soil and rubble - please ask site staff for assistance.
Please remove packaging, such as bags holding hardened cement, before disposal.
Rubble is not accepted at New Alresford HWRC.
What happens to your waste?
The contents of your household waste bin will be sent to one of three Energy Recovery Facilities (ERFs) in Hampshire, where it will be safely incinerated. Each year, the three ERFs generate enough electricity to power 53,000 Hampshire homes!
Mixed recycling collected from Hampshire households is sorted at one of two Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) in Hampshire. The MRFs sort your recycling into different material streams to be recycled into new items.
Less than 5% of Hampshire's household waste is sent to landfill.
Find out more about what happens to your waste
It is your duty of care to dispose of your waste correctly. You could be fined an unlimited amount by your local council if your waste ends up fly tipped. Find out more