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Items we cannot collect

We will not collect:

  • Aga cookers and cast-iron cookers
  • Asbestos
  • Bagged waste
  • Barbed wire
  • Batteries
  • Branches
  • Breeze blocks
  • Bricks
  • Car parts and scrap metals
  • Cement and concrete
  • Chemical and liquid waste (including pesticides)
  • Clothes pole
  • Commercial waste
  • Coal bunker
  • Corrugated iron
  • Dead animals
  • DIY waste from household repairs or improvements
  • Fencing
  • Fireplace
  • Fluorescent tubes
  • Garage doors
  • Gas canisters and gas bottles
  • Glass
  • Heating appliance and boiler
  • Oil
  • Paint and paint pots
  • Pianos
  • Plasterboard
  • Radiators
  • Rayburn cookers and cast-iron cookers
  • Roofing
  • Rubble
  • Sheds
  • Soil
  • Stainless steel ranges
  • Stones
  • Tarmac
  • Tree stumps
  • Water tanks
  • Weed killer
  • Wire
  • Wood (unless smaller than two inches by two inches by four feet and unable to fit into a wheeled bin)

If you cannot see your item on this list, you can email recycle@highland.gov.uk to check.

Page last modified: 19 May 2026

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