Request clinical household waste collection

Information regarding the disposal of your clinical household waste.

Clinical waste collections

North Norfolk District Council provides a free clinical waste collection service for domestic properties. Group A includes all:

• human tissue
• blood-soiled surgical dressings
• swabs
• other soiled waste from treatment areas

Do not place Group A waste in either your black sacks, clear recycling sacks or twin bins.

Incontinence pads, urinary catheter bags or tubes, and stoma bags can be safely disposed of in your black wheeled bin and make sure this waste is double bagged. If you require a larger bin for this product, contact our Serco customer services on 0330 1099 220.

If you need to request a clinical collection, contact our contractor, Serco, on 0330 1099 220.

Sharps box collections

Your local GP services now provide sharps boxes, and you can arrange disposal through participating pharmacies. See Norfolk Community Directory - Sharps Waste Disposal Service for a list of participating pharmacies.

Alternatively, North Norfolk District Council also provides a free collection service for sharps boxes from domestic properties (Group B).

Do not place Group B in either your black sacks, clear recycling sacks or twin bins.

Contact our contractor, Serco, on 0330 1099 220 if you need to request a sharps box collection.

Hazardous waste

Hazardous waste is any solid or liquid material that may cause harm to people or the environment if not disposed of correctly. 

You can no longer dispose of liquid paint at Norfolk's Household Waste Recycling Centres.

If you have old paint, please consider offering it to friends or community groups or advertising it on community notice boards. Alternatively, you can put sand, cat litter or absorbent granules to dry the paint out and dispose of the paint tin in your black household waste bin. Please make sure the lid is removed from the paint tin, or that it is clearly visible that the paint has fully dried out, as we cannot accept tins containing liquid paint.

Norfolk County Council offers free Hazardous Days, when you can take items to a local recycling centre.

Further information on hazardous waste can be found on the Norfolk County Council website.

Asbestos

Asbestos is not collected through our service or the Norfolk County Council recycling centres. You must arrange for a specialist asbestos removal and disposal contractor to remove asbestos.