Services
Household waste - special collections for large items
Waste Management Services provides a special uplift service for items of bulky domestic waste.
Customers living within West Lothian may request up to a maximum of 3 FREE uplifts per year, thereafter customers will need to PAY for any additional uplifts. For any additional uplifts from any household there will be a charge of £13.50 per uplift. Household uplifts will normally take place within seven working days from the date of your request.
The 3 FREE uplifts scheme started in January 2007 but does not include bulky waste from business or commercial properties.
To request a bulky uplift - please phone 01506 775000
We collect bulky items from 7am to 3pm, so you'll need to have all your items outside by 7am. All items listed for uplift should be left together in an area outside which is accessible from 7am in the morning. Unfortunately we cannot uplift items from inside your property, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Once you have requested your uplift you must ensure that:
- All items for collection are placed at ground level
- Planks of wood must be no longer that four feet in length with all nails removed completely
- Laminate flooring must be de-nailed and then tied into four feet length manageable bundles
There are some types of material that for health and safety reasons, or because they may damage the mechanism on the collection vehicles, that may be unsuitable for an uplift.
Items that CANNOT be uplifted: Cast iron washing poles with concrete bases, supermarket trolleys (contact the supermarket concerned), garage doors, garden rollers, safes, clinical or any hazardous waste, storage heaters, cast iron baths, branches, grass clippings or other organic garden waste
The following items can be disposed of at any CRC Site (Community Recycling Centre) - Gas cyclinders, oil and car batteries
We sponsor a local charity called Home Aid West Lothian, which takes good quality, unwanted goods such as furniture, kitchenware and bedding etc and passes it on to needy people in the area. To arrange for an uplift call the charity direct on 01506 652230.
Please note that you can also dispose of your household and garden waste free of charge at one of our Community Recycling Centres.
Service Standards
- We will tell customer when the collection date will take place. Collection will normally be within 5 working days of request.
- We will remove articles to be uplifted from the nearest point within the garden to the roadside
- We will ensure that all articles are disposed of in accordance within current waste management legislation
- Customer must specify all items to be uplifted and only these items will be uplifted (this is for risk and insurance purposes). All specified items must be grouped together.
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