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We can give advice on how to dispose, or collect, hazardous waste such as clinical waste, broken glass, medicines, car batteries, gas cylinder, spillages, dead animals, asbestos and syringes.

Hazardous waste

Please call us on 01752 668000 or complete our cleaner streets online form

We will remove any hazardous waste by the next working day after it has been reported.

Dead animals

Please call us on 01752 668000 or complete our cleaner streets online form

We will remove and dispose of dead animals from all publicly accessible areas immediately that they are reported. Where possible the collars are retrieved and kept should the owner claim them.

Hypodermic needles

We will remove any needles within one hour of them being reported.

Please do not email reports of hypodermic needles, contact us immediately by telephone.

We provide sharps boxes free of charge to domestic properties, please contact us where your call will be answered in confidence (please allow 1 week for delivery of boxes). We offer free delivery, collection and disposal of sharps boxes. For information on how to safely use sharps boxes and dispose of used needles, please visit the NHS website

Private businesses, such as residential homes, must find a private service through, for example, Yellow Pages.

Asbestos

If you are working on or removing asbestos containing materials you must take precautions to protect the health and safety of both yourself and others who may be affected.

For further information on Asbestos please visit The Health and Safety Executive or The Environment Agency.

You can take your asbestos containing material waste to Chelson Meadow for disposal. You must first either phone 01752 408408 or alternatively email recycling@plymouth.gov.uk to check on the conditions of disposal, and to arrange a date and time.

If you have a large quantity of asbestos containing materials to remove you should consider the services of a licensed asbestos removal contractor. Details of local contractors can be found in the Yellow Pages under Asbestos.

Clinical waste

Information about clinical waste disposal is available on the DEFRA website.

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