About waste permits
Residents are now required to book a time slot before they visit one of our Household Waste Recycling Centres. Booking is easy online and will ensure only Central Bedfordshire residents can use the centres.
Central Bedfordshire households using any of the following vehicles, will need a waste permit:
- van
- pick-up
- car (including MPVs) towing a single axle trailer (from 1.2 metres by 0.9 metres, up to 1.8 metres by 1.2 metres) and up to 60cm high with a cover
Each permit will allow one visit per household to dispose of all waste and households can apply for up to 12 permits within a 12-month period.
In addition, a permit is also required to dispose of the following items:
- mattresses (disposal is limited to 2 mattresses per household per year)
- carpet and underlay (any amount permissible, but carpet and underlay disposal is limited to 2 visits per household per year)
- DIY waste (limit of up to 6 items per month)
- used engine oil (maximum 20 litres per visit)
- tyres (unlimited disposal, but a charge of £11.30 per tyre will apply. This applies to all tyre disposals)
- large gas bottles (limited to 2 per year)
- large fire extinguisher (domestic only, limited to 1 per year)
You can apply for a waste permit when you book a time slot
Why you need a permit
The permit system prevents taxpayers from footing the bill for commercial waste clean-ups. Our sites are licensed to accept only household waste, apart from Thorn Turn Trade Waste facility.
However, sites still allow residents the convenience of using vans or large trailers for their household waste.
If we find that commercial waste is being disposed of at our tidy tips, it is possible that the licence would be revoked, and the site closed.
Examples of DIY waste
Maximum 6 items:
- 1 bathtub
- 1 toilet pan
- 1 cistern
- 1 washbasin
- 1 water tank
- 1 standard door
- 1 kitchen worktop (maximum length 1.5metres)
- 1 kitchen unit
- laminate flooring (10 boards, maximum length per board 1.2metres)
- skirting boards (10 boards, maximum length per board 1.2metres)
- chipboard/plasterboard (maximum size by board 8 feet x 4 feet)
- 1 window frame
- 1 tree stump (maximum 100mm diameter)
- 1 fence panel and post
- 1 sack (100 litres) of soil or rubble
- 1 sack (100 litres of other DIY waste, e.g. tiles)