Clinical waste and medical sharps collection

Clinical waste collections

We provide a domestic clinical waste collection service to households in the borough which require it.

Waste must be placed in yellow clinical waste bags. Bags need to be tied and left on your doorstep from 7am on the collection day.

We do not supply the yellow bags, these are provided by district nurses or similar medical professionals.

To request clinical waste collections, you will need the name of your medical professional who can confirm that the service is needed.

Clinical waste collections are a regular service so will not require multiple bookings, but if you no longer require the service please inform us of this, this can be done using the clinical waste and medical sharps request form.

There are collection days for different area postcodes:

PR5, PR6, PR25 and BL6 are Wednesdays

PR7, PR26 and L40 are Thursdays.

Request a clinical waste or medical sharps collection

Medical sharps collections

Medical sharps collections need to be booked in each time you need a collection.

To ensure a collection for the same week, you will need to make sure the collection has been booked before 12pm on Monday. If booked after 12pm Monday, the collection will be the following week.

The sealed sharps box will need to be left on your doorstep from 7am on the collection day.

We do not supply sharps boxes, these are available from district nurses or similar medical professionals, and you will require these before booking a collection.