Services

Black bins

Black bins are emptied weekly and you are responsible for putting them out the night before, and bringing them back in again after collection. If you are unsure of what day to put your bins out, find the information at www.leeds.gov.uk/recycling.
The Environmental Action team can and will fine all residents of a property if they fail to put their bins back after they have been emptied!
If you're leaving Leeds before bin day you can register with our team of Changeover Wardens and they'll put your bin out and bring it back in for you. Just call tel: 0113 380 1329 to register.

Green Bins

Green bins are collected fortnightly, and sometimes on different days to the black bins. You cannot put glass in these green bins. However, they can be used to recycle: paper (junk mail, newspaper, old essays); cardboard (brown card, glossy card, egg boxes); metal cans; and plastics (bags and bottles marked with the numbers 1, 2 and 4).
Please see information on recycling points below on how to dispose of glass appropriately. The Environmental Action Team can and will issue fines for green bins left on the street between collections.
If you are leaving your house before bin day and would like one of the Leave Leeds Tidy Changeover Wardens to put it out, and back after, you can book this service by calling: 0113 380 1329. Please paint the number of your property onto the bins in advance.

Recycling Points

There are recycling points at various locations in the area, details of which can be found below. Click on the postcodes to see their MultiMap locations.

Bank Location	Address	What is Collected?	Postcode
Leeds University Union	Lifton Place	Glass, Paper, Textiles	LS2 9JT
Yorkshire Television	Kirkstall Road	Glass, Paper	LS3 1JS
Opal 1	Road Side, Burley Road	Glass	LS3 1LS
Burley Liberal Club	Burley Road	Glass	LS4 2ET
Cardigan Arms	Kirkstall Road	Glass	LS4 2HQ
Household Waste Sorting Site	Evanston Avenue	All	LS4 2AG
Netto Supermarket	Kirkstall Road	Glass, Paper, Textiles	LS4 2AZ
Kirkstall Leisure Centre	Kirkstall Road	Glass, Paper	LS5 3BE
Morrison’s	Savins Mill Way	Glass	LS5 3RP
Co-operative	Cardigan Road	Glass	LS6 1LU
Leeds Met, Headingley Campus	Church Wood Lane	Mixed Glass	LS6 3QS
Headingley Court Flats	North grange Road	Glass	LS6 2BR
Headingley Tapps	North Lane	Glass, Paper	LS6 3HU
Hinsley Hall	Otley Road	Mixed Glass	LS6 2BX
Hyde Park Corner	Woodhouse	Glass, Paper	LS6 1AF
Jubilee Social Club	Melville Place	Glass	LS6 2LZ
Devonshire Halls, University of Leeds	Cumberland Road	Glass, Paper	LS6 2EQ
Mary Morris Institute	Shire Oak Road	Glass	LS6 2DE
Northwest Liberal Club	Woodhouse Street	Glass	LS6 2JH
Queenswood Social Club	Queenswood Drive	Glass, Paper	LS6 3HT
Road Side	Thornville Crescent	Mixed Glass	LS6 1JY
Woodsley Road Car Park	Woodsley Road	Glass	LS6 1SN
Little London Community Centre	Oatland Lane	Mixed Glass	LS7 1SP

Household Waste Sorting Sites (HWSS)

If you have stuff to get rid of and it can't be used by someone else then take it to one of the local HWSS.

Meanwood, Meanwood Road, LS7 2LP. Tel: 0113 262 1106
Kirkstall, Evanston Avenue, LS 4 2HR. Tel: 0113 214 3639

These help you dispose of a wide range of unwanted items in a safe and clean manner. You can recycle most things so take them already sorted in bags to save you time when you get there. Commercial waste can only be taken to the Kirkstall site and must be weighed in via the weight bridge. Members of the LLAS scheme (London Landlord Accreditation Scheme) are eligible to dispose of some items of waste free of charge if they show their membership card when using the weighbridge, details of which can be found at www.leeds.gov.uk or by calling tel: 0113 0113 2476135.

Bulky Waste Collections

If you are unable to get large broken items to the household waste sorting site, you can arrange for it to be collected by calling the council at tel: 0113 222 4406. Once you've logged the item with them they will make arrangements for collection.

Bargain Hunt

The 'Up You Street' project (CALM Volunteering) organises an annual Bargain Hunt event which will be held this year on Saturday 16th May on Woodhouse Moor. Students leaving for the summer are able to pack up their unwanted belongings and take part in the recycling event. Students sell re-usable second-hand goods on stalls in a bid to reduce the amount of household waste on the streets. For more info contact Jenine at CALM on email: J.Poyser@leedsmet.ac.uk.

Green Streets

Green Streets is a student-led volunteering project which aims to reduce the amount of re-usable items going to landfill as a result of student change-over in Leeds.
Last year, Green Streets diverted approximately eight tonnes from landfill. Items were taken from some of the ‘free shops’ but a lot of things were donated to over 15 charity shops and other beneficiaries including St. George’s Crypt, Pafras, the Hollies, Retas and the Simon Community.
Green Streets will appreciate any items that that you or your tenants no longer require. Bags will be delivered to every property on the Change-over Map and each area will have four collection days when these bags can be left out - this should be done after 9.30am on the morning of collection to avoid them getting wet or slashed.
Landlords can also donate items to Green Streets rather than throwing items, left behind in student properties, out. Just call Green Streets on tel: 0113 380 1329 to arrange a collection. Find out all about the Green Streets project on the 'Green Streets' page.

Shredders

There will be shredding facilities in the reception of each of the students' union buildings: the Leeds University Union and Leeds Metropolitan University Students' Union civic and Headingley sites. These will be in place for all students to shred any documents that they’ve been storing over the year, such as bank statements, bills etc to prevent ID theft. This service will also be publicised to deter bag slashes.