Rubbish removal in Greenwich

Royal Greenwich won't collect a sofa from inside your flat. The council charges £13.82 an item, but the sofa has to be outside at the front of the building by 6am, and crews won't come into the flat, a gated car park without a code or a locked store. RLE Waste Clearance collects from inside the flat, carries the sofa down and takes it away, and a photo of it is enough for a price.

A gated or fob-entry block in Greenwich is fine once we have the way in: the gate or car park code, the entrance and lift to use, and whether the concierge needs our names. A fob left in a key safe or with the concierge works too. If a goods lift or loading bay has to be booked, book it for the agreed slot or pass us the managing agent's details.

A Greenwich managing agent can apply for a commercial account, subject to credit checks, and book bin store and communal area clear-outs on it. Each job is priced by how much truck space the waste fills and confirmed before the crew starts, and the waste transfer note shows who took it away. Payment otherwise is on completion by card, cash, bank transfer or company cheque.

A weekend clearance in Greenwich is no problem, because we work 7am to 7pm, seven days a week, at the same prices every day of the week. That includes the Town Centre and East Greenwich zones, which stay controlled on Saturdays and Sundays. Finding a legal place to stop and load is our job, and any parking fee or fine on the day is ours to pay, not yours.

A washing machine from an upper-floor flat in Greenwich goes in as part of the load with no separate item charge, and the crew of two carries it down. Standard cookers are the same, but a range cooker is £50 plus VAT. A fridge, fridge freezer or upright freezer adds £60 plus VAT, and a chest freezer or American fridge freezer £90 plus VAT. Our white goods collection page has the details.

Council tenants in Greenwich don't pay a separate bulky waste fee, because it's covered by their service charge, but the crews still only collect from outside the front of the building. For a wardrobe on the fourth floor or a sofa behind a locked store, RLE Waste Clearance carries it out for you, priced by the space it fills in the truck.

A Greenwich householder who hands rubbish to an unregistered collector can be fined £600 for breaching their duty of care, from 19 January 2026, when the council's fly-tipping fine also went up to £1,000 (Royal Greenwich (external site)). Check any collector on the register of waste carriers (external site). RLE Waste Clearance is registered at upper tier, number CBDU175566.

A skip on a Greenwich council estate needs a licence from the estate office, valid for 28 days (Royal Greenwich skip rules (external site)). A collection from us needs nothing of the kind: the crew loads from wherever the truck can stop and leaves with everything, so nothing stands in the car park for weeks. Road skips are covered in skip permit costs in Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich, and our alternative to skip hire page sets out how the two compare.