Commercial waste collection cost (5 sources)
The median published figure in the Commercial Waste Collection Price Index is 14.30 GBP across 5 figures from 2 sources' own pages (range 6.65 to 18.88 GBP), read 12 September 2026.
14.3 GBP Median published figure middle half 7.8 to 17.27 GBP
6.65 to 18.88 GBP Range a 12.23 GBP spread; quartiles 7.8 and 17.27
5 Sources with a figure of 43 read in full, 5 Oct 2026
2 of 43 Sources read that publish one 5% publish a figure at all
- 17 to 9
- 29 to 11
- 111 to 13
- 213 to 15
- 215 to 17
- 17 to 19
Bands
| Bucket | Value |
|---|---|
| 7 to 9 | 1 source |
| 9 to 11 | 2 sources |
| 11 to 13 | 1 source |
| 13 to 15 | 2 sources |
| 15 to 17 | 2 sources |
| 17 to 19 | 0 sources |
2 of the 43 named sources read in full publish a figure; 41 publish none, read 12 September 2026.
By waste stream
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| waste stream residual | 13.91 GBP | 8.94 to 18.88 GBP | 2 |
| waste stream dry mixed recycling | 10.48 GBP | 6.65 to 14.3 GBP | 2 |
| waste stream food | 15.66 GBP | 15.66 to 15.66 GBP | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
The sentence each figure was read from (11)
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12:
1100 litre general waste bin – £28.20 per collection, equivalent to £733.20 per 6 months for weekly collections or £366.60 per 6 months for fortnightly collections
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12:
770 litre food waste bin - £25.24 per collection, equivalent to £656.24 per 6 months for weekly collections, or £328.12 per 6 months for fortnightly collections
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12:
770 litre general waste bin - £23.18 per collection, equivalent to £602.68 per 6 months for weekly collections or £301.34 per 6 months for fortnightly collections
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12:
400 litre food waste bin - £15.66 per collection, equivalent to £407.16 per 6 months for weekly collections, or £203.58 per 6 months for fortnightly collections
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12:
1100 litre MDR Bin - £14.89 per collection*, £193.57 per 6 month.
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12:
360 litre general waste bin - £14.59 per collection, equivalent to £379.34 per 6 months for weekly collections or £189.64 per 6 months for fortnightly collections
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12:
240 litre MDR Bin - £13.71 per collection*, £178.23 per 6 month.
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12:
240 litre general waste bin - £12.61 per collection, equivalent to £327.86 per 6 months for weekly collections or £163.93 per 6 months for fortnightly collections
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12:
240 litre food waste bin - £9.99 per collection, equivalent to £259.74 per 6 months for weekly collections, or £129.87 per 6 months for fortnightly collections
- Walsall Council: commercial waste, read 2026-09-12:
Bin size Bin capacity (approx) Price per bin lift 240 litres (H105.7cm x W58cm x D71.5cm) 2-3 standard 80L bin bags £8.94
- Walsall Council: commercial waste, read 2026-09-12:
Bin size Bin capacity (approx) Price per bin lift 240 litres (H105.7cm x W58cm x D71.5cm) Equivalent to 2-3 standard 80L bin bags £6.65
Read in full, publishes no figure
41 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Hertsmere Borough Council: commercial waste collections and bins, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Cornwall Council: new commercial waste service options and prices, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- Fylde Council: commercial waste charges, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- London Borough of Richmond upon Thames: commercial waste and recycling charges, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Warwickshire County Council: commercial waste pay-as-you-throw prices, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Stirling Council: waste and recycling for businesses, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Argyll and Bute Council: waste, recycling and skips fees and charges, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Malvern Hills District Council: commercial waste and recycling, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Malvern Hills District Council: commercial food waste collection service, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- First Mile: general waste sacks, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- First Mile: mixed recycling sacks, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Cherwell District Council: business waste fees, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Cherwell District Council: business waste fees (short path), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Derbyshire Dales District Council: business waste and recycling, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- North Yorkshire Council: commercial waste disposal and charges, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Broxtowe Borough Council: trade waste collections, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Reading Borough Council: trade and business waste, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Herefordshire Council: our business waste and recycling service, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- City of York Council: commercial waste collections, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Birmingham City Council: commercial waste, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Birmingham City Council: pre-paid sacks for commercial waste, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Sheffield City Council: commercial and business waste, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Nottingham City Council: commercial waste collections, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Manchester City Council: commercial waste disposal for businesses, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Belfast City Council: commercial waste collection, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Mid Ulster District Council: rates for disposal of commercial waste, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Mid and East Antrim Borough Council: commercial waste services, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- West Suffolk Council: simpler recycling - commercial waste, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Gedling Borough Council: simpler recycling (trade waste), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Rushcliffe Borough Council: Simpler Recycling for businesses, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Havant Borough Council: simpler recycling legislation and commercial waste, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Biffa: bins and collections FAQs, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Veolia UK: Simpler Recycling service, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Simply Waste Solutions: business waste, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- RTS: commercial bins, London, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- McKinstry Group: commercial waste collections (Northern Ireland), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- MacNabb Waste Management: bin collections (Northern Ireland), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Business Waste: Simpler Recycling, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- the UK commercial collector universe, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- cherwell.gov.uk, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through the estate's fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
2 of the 43 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 41 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 62 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): median, minimum and maximum published price per lift by bin size (140/240/360/660/770/1100 litre) and by stream (residual, dry mixed recycling, food, sacks), per nation and per region, across every collector that publishes a figure - and, as the number nobody else can state, the SHARE of collectors that publish a price at all versus quote-only.
Measured here on the first pass: the national private collectors (Biffa, Veolia, Simply Waste Solutions, RTS) publish no per-lift figure on their own pages, while local authorities publish a full schedule, so the published-price universe of UK commercial waste is overwhelmingly municipal.
Plus the year-on-year move per collector, read from the dated charge schedules (2025/26 against 2026/27).
62 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (43)
- North East Derbyshire District Council: commercial waste charges (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Walsall Council: commercial waste (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Hertsmere Borough Council: commercial waste collections and bins (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Cornwall Council: new commercial waste service options and prices (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council: commercial waste charges (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Fylde Council: commercial waste charges (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- London Borough of Richmond upon Thames: commercial waste and recycling charges (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Warwickshire County Council: commercial waste pay-as-you-throw prices (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Stirling Council: waste and recycling for businesses (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Argyll and Bute Council: waste, recycling and skips fees and charges (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Malvern Hills District Council: commercial waste and recycling (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Malvern Hills District Council: commercial food waste collection service (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- First Mile: general waste sacks (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- First Mile: mixed recycling sacks (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Cherwell District Council: business waste fees (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Cherwell District Council: business waste fees (short path) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Derbyshire Dales District Council: business waste and recycling (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- North Yorkshire Council: commercial waste disposal and charges (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Broxtowe Borough Council: trade waste collections (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Reading Borough Council: trade and business waste (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Herefordshire Council: our business waste and recycling service (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- City of York Council: commercial waste collections (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Birmingham City Council: commercial waste (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Birmingham City Council: pre-paid sacks for commercial waste (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Sheffield City Council: commercial and business waste (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Nottingham City Council: commercial waste collections (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Manchester City Council: commercial waste disposal for businesses (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Belfast City Council: commercial waste collection (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Mid Ulster District Council: rates for disposal of commercial waste (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Mid and East Antrim Borough Council: commercial waste services (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- West Suffolk Council: simpler recycling - commercial waste (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Gedling Borough Council: simpler recycling (trade waste) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Rushcliffe Borough Council: Simpler Recycling for businesses (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Havant Borough Council: simpler recycling legislation and commercial waste (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Biffa: bins and collections FAQs (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Veolia UK: Simpler Recycling service (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Simply Waste Solutions: business waste (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- RTS: commercial bins, London (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- McKinstry Group: commercial waste collections (Northern Ireland) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- MacNabb Waste Management: bin collections (Northern Ireland) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Business Waste: Simpler Recycling (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- the UK commercial collector universe (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- cherwell.gov.uk (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The median published figure in the Commercial Waste Collection Price Index is 14.30 GBP across 5 figures from 2 sources' own pages (range 6.65 to 18.88 GBP), read 12 September 2026.
2 of the 43 named sources read in full publish a figure; 41 publish none, read 12 September 2026.
Commercial Waste Collection Price Index, waste stream residual: median 13.91 GBP across 2 sources, read 12 September 2026.
Commercial Waste Collection Price Index, waste stream dry mixed recycling: median 10.48 GBP across 2 sources, read 12 September 2026.
Commercial Waste Collection Price Index, waste stream food: median 15.66 GBP across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.
Cite as: "workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk Commercial Waste Collection Price Index", updated 2026-10-05, https://workplacerecyclingrules.co.uk/datasets/commercial-waste-collection-price-index/.
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