Contact your local authority to find out what you can recycle where
Swansea
Kerbside collections
Glass, cans, paper, cardboard and card are in green bags. The collections are made fortnightly on your GREEN WEEK collection.
Plastics are collected in pink bags. The collections are made fortnightly on your PINK WEEK collection.
Kitchen waste is collected weekly from the kerbside in a green bin. The collections are made EVERY WEEK.
Garden waste is collected in a reusable white bag. The collections are made fortnightly on your GREEN WEEK collection
Bring Bank sites
There are 20 bring bank sites in Swansea collecting a range of materials including paper, glass, cans and textiles. For details of your nearest site visit our bank locator
Civic Amenity sites
There are 5 civic amenity sites in Swansea:
- Ferry Close, Llansamlet
- Derwen Fawr Road, Clyne
- Phoenix Way, Gorseinon
- Heol Gwyrosydd, Penlan
- Danygraig Road, St Thomas
Llansamlet and Clyne Civic Amenity Sites are open 7 days a week from 8.30am – 5pm
The sites in Gorseinon, Penlan and
In store battery recycling trial
You can take your old batteries to the following stores for recycling:
- Argos, Parc Fforestfach, Fforestfach
- Argos, High Street, Swansea
- B&Q, Morfa Retail Park
- Currys, Valley Way, Swansea Enterprise Park
- Currys.digital, Parc Fforestfach, Fforestfach
- Homebase, Parc Tawe North
- PC World, Valley Way, Swansea Enterprise Park
- Tesco, Oystermouth Road
- Tesco Express, Bryn y Mor Road, Gowerton
- Tesco Extra, Nantyffin Road, Swansea Enterprise Park
- Tesco Extra, Parc Fforestfach, Fforestfach
See link for types of battery accepted and location maps of stores
For more information please visit the City and County of Swansea Council website.
Recycling Team
c/o Head of Service
Environment Department,
Guildhall,
Swansea,
SA1 4PE- Environmental Helpline
- 01792 635600
- recycling@swansea.gov.uk
- http://www.swansea.gov.uk/recycl
- Keep Wales Tidy
- Friends of the Earth - Cymru
- Enfys Foundation (0845 009 4646) - furniture reuse
- Welsh Initiative for Supportive Employment
- Res A Rec (01792 653553) - furniture reuse
- The Environment Centre
- Community RePaint Website
- Freecycle Swansea
- Recycling batteries in Swansea
- WRAP Battery Recycling Take Back Trial (Swansea)
- Recycle Now: Compost Buddies video (English only)
- Furniture Reuse Network
- Enfys (English only site)
- Freegle reuse networks
- Recycling batteries: Information from Directgov (English only site)
- bigwardrobe.com (English language only)
- Freegive (English language)
- Every Can Counts (English only website)

