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Guides written by the RLE Waste Clearance team, starting with what councils across south-east London and Kent charge for a bulky waste collection, what they take and what they refuse. Each one links to the council's own pages.

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Latest guides

  • Flattened cardboard, boxes, bags and a small white fridge piled in a brick bin store beside green wheelie bins

    End-of-tenancy clearance: a landlord's guide

    The notice rules for belongings a tenant leaves behind, what a deposit can and can't cover, your duty of care when a contractor takes the waste, and how to plan the clear-out between tenancies.

  • Old kitchen cabinets, worktops and boards stacked with black bags on a block-paved drive in front of a brick house

    Skip permit costs in Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich

    Skip licence fees, renewals, parking bay suspension charges and road rules in Bromley, Bexley and Royal Greenwich, taken from each council's own pages.

  • An RLE crew member walking to the open back of a black RLE Waste Clearance box truck under a blue sky

    Sofa disposal and the POPs rules

    Why sofas, armchairs and other padded seats now go for incineration, which items count, how councils collect them, and how to check that whoever takes your old sofa is a registered waste carrier.

  • Black bin bags and cardboard boxes of rubbish piled high against a black timber-clad wall on a gravel yard

    What is a waste transfer note?

    What a waste transfer note is, what it must include, which businesses and landlords need one, how long to keep it, and what householders in Bromley should check before anyone takes their rubbish.

  • Rubble and feed sacks, a uPVC window frame, timber and a chipboard sheet piled under a front window beside a hedge

    Council bulky waste collections compared across ten councils

    Prices, item limits and refusals for bulky waste collections in Bromley, Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark, Croydon, Merton, Epsom and Ewell, Dartford and Sevenoaks.

Council fees and rules change, so each guide links to the council's own page and says when it was last checked. Not sure which council covers your street? GOV.UK's find your local council (external site) tool tells you from your postcode.

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