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Croydon, CR0, CR2, CR5, CR7, CR8 and SE25

Rubbish removal in Croydon

Rubbish removal in Croydon costs from £60 plus VAT with RLE Waste Clearance, and a full truck is £360 plus VAT. Two of us load straight from the property, from tower flats by East Croydon station to family houses in Purley and Coulsdon, and transport and disposal are in the price. Send the photos on WhatsApp for a price.

  • Upper tier waste carrier
  • CHAS Standard
  • Loads from £60 + VAT
RLE Waste Clearance truck in black and yellow livery parked on block paving in front of a row of terraced houses

How much does rubbish removal in Croydon cost?

Rubbish removal in Croydon costs £130 plus VAT with RLE Waste Clearance for about a quarter of the truck, roughly a spare bedroom's worth, and £180 plus VAT for half a truck, about the furniture from a one-bedroom flat. You're charged for the share of the 15 cubic yard truck your rubbish takes up.

A short list of items such as fridges and tyres costs extra; see extra items. Photograph the waste and send it with your postcode to 07534 244774, or ring 020 8611 2586. We confirm the figure before loading, and you're under no obligation. For landlords clearing between tenants, the waste transfer note and receipt matter as much as the price, since Croydon's new licensing schemes for privately rented homes started on 1 September 2026. We're an upper tier registered waste carrier, broker and dealer, number CBDU175566.

What paperwork should a landlord keep after rubbish removal in Croydon?

Since 1 September 2026, Croydon has run selective licensing for privately rented homes in 14 of its 28 wards, which the council says covers about 72.5% of the private rented sector, plus additional licensing for houses in multiple occupation across the whole borough. Both schemes run for five years. They're about housing standards, and Croydon's announcement (external site) sets out the detail.

None of that is a waste rule as such. But a landlord or agent clearing a flat or an HMO between tenants will want proper paperwork for where the contents went, and that means a waste transfer note and a receipt from a registered waste carrier. A handyman paid to clear the flat can't run the load to a Croydon tip either, because the borough's sites turn trade waste away.

You pay on completion by card, cash, bank transfer or company cheque, and the waste transfer note and receipt follow. Agents with several properties can apply for a commercial account, subject to credit checks. See flat clearance and house clearance for how a full clear-out runs.

How is rubbish removal in Croydon priced for a tower flat?

Around 39% of Croydon households (external site) live in a flat, and some of them are a long way up: the Ten Degrees towers by East Croydon station have 546 homes over 38 and 44 storeys. On jobs like that, the carry from the door to the truck is a bigger part of the work than the loading itself.

Send photos of each room plus the floor number, and we'll price the carry from those. Loading time is built into each load price, and if a long carry runs over it, extra labour is £30 plus VAT per 30 minutes, agreed before we start. For a house with a loft or a garage to empty, see loft clearance and garage clearance.

Want a price for yours? Send a photo on WhatsApp and we'll tell you the load size and the price.

Why is a skip hard to place on a Croydon street?

Only skip companies can apply for a Croydon skip permit, with at least 5 working days' notice. Skips are never allowed on the red routes, and they're restricted on 13 named roads, including London Road, High Street, George Street, Selhurst Road and Whitehorse Lane. Near Selhurst Park, a skip has to come off the road on Crystal Palace home match days.

Rubbish removal in Croydon from us avoids the permit, the suspended bay and the days of a skip sitting outside. The truck is loaded and gone on one visit, you don't wait for anyone to come back and collect, and you pay for the space your waste takes up rather than a fixed container.

How it works

Four steps to a clear space in Croydon

  1. Send a photo or call

    WhatsApp a photo with your postcode, or call us on 020 8611 2586.

  2. Get a price by load size

    We match it to one of our load sizes and confirm the price. You don't have to go ahead.

  3. We load it

    Our two-person crew does the lifting and loads the truck, with the loading time already in the price.

  4. We take it away

    We drive it to a waste transfer station, where it's sorted. You pay once the job's done and get a receipt and a waste transfer note.

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Services in Croydon

Questions

Rubbish removal in Croydon: your questions

Anything else? Ask us on WhatsApp or give us a call.

A sofa in Croydon can go on the council's bulky collection, at £40.40 for one to three items, but it has to be put out the night before, and sofas and armchairs come on a separate visit from everything else. RLE Waste Clearance carries the sofa out of the house or flat and takes it in the same visit as the rest of your rubbish, priced by the space it fills.

Croydon's bulky collection costs £40.40 for one to three items or £65.30 for four to six, with six the most it will take and no free allowance. Collections are on weekdays, from items put out the night before. For a seventh item, or anything it refuses such as tiles, mirrors or a cast iron bath, a load from us has no item limit.

A Croydon rubbish removal price includes a two-person crew carrying everything out of the property and loading it, the loading time for that load size, the drive and disposal. Fridges, tyres, paint and a few other items cost extra, listed under extra items. The price is confirmed before loading starts, with no obligation to go ahead.

A high-rise flat near East Croydon can be cleared like any other: two of us carry everything down to the truck, and the loading time is part of the load price. If the building needs the service lift booked, book it for the day and tell us the slot. Send the floor number with the photos, and any extra labour for a long carry is agreed before we start.

Loading in Croydon's 20 controlled parking zones is fine: we pull up, load and drive off, and if a parking charge or fine comes up on the day, we pay it. The A22, A23 and A232 are red routes, so if you live on one, say so with the photos and we'll plan where the truck can stop. The carry to the truck is part of the loading time.

A tenant's leftover furniture in Croydon should go with a registered waste carrier if someone else takes it away, and you should get a waste transfer note and a receipt. Ask for the registration number and check it on the register of waste carriers (external site) before they load. RLE Waste Clearance is registered at upper tier as a carrier, broker and dealer, number CBDU175566, and CHAS Standard accredited if your agent asks.

Rubbish removal in Croydon from RLE Waste Clearance covers Purley (CR8), Coulsdon (CR5), Thornton Heath (CR7) and South Norwood (SE25) as well as central and South Croydon (CR0 and CR2). Every job is priced the same way, by the space your rubbish fills in the truck, and we work 7am to 7pm, seven days a week. Next door, our Mitcham page covers CR4.

Paint, tyres and gas bottles from a Croydon home go on the truck with the rest of the load. Paint is £10 plus VAT per 5 litres, car tyres are £4 plus VAT each and Calor gas bottles are £10 plus VAT. We can collect asbestos that has already been removed if you tell us about it first, but not chemicals or other hazardous waste.

Clearing something in Croydon?

Send a photo and we'll price it by load size. Open 7am to 7pm, 7 days.

020 8611 2586

Get a free quote

Tell us what needs clearing and roughly how much there is. We'll reply with a price by load size within 2 hours, 7am to 7pm.

Send us a photo for a price

WhatsApp a photo of what needs clearing, with your postcode. We'll price it by how much of the truck it fills.

WhatsApp 07534 244774

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Roughly how much is there? (optional)

For example stairs, parking or items like fridges and mattresses.

No obligation. We confirm the price before we start, and you pay when the job's done.

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Nearby areas

Each page has its own council bulky waste rules and parking notes.

All areas we cover