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Black Recycling Box
Recycling boxes - Collected every week Each household will have three recycling boxes, one for paper, one for glass bottles and jars and one for cardboard. NB: from 5th April 2021 card and glass must… Content last updated: 21 March 2025
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Household Recycling Centres
Find your nearest Recycling Centre. Content last updated: 23 December 2025
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Bins and Recycling
The seasonal kerbside garden waste collections service will end on Friday 28 November 2025 and resume on Monday 30 March 2026. Green garden waste is accepted at the Household Recycling Centres (HRCs)… Content last updated: 24 February 2026
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Find your nearest Household Recycling Centre
Household Recycling Centres/Civic Amenity Sites are provided by the Council for residents to dispose of their household waste. For further information please, refer to our Household Recycling Centre G… Content last updated: 18 March 2026
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Blue Reusable Recycling Sack
Collected every week. YES PLEASE! Plastic bottles e.g. milk, drink, shampoo bottles Food containers - e.g. yoghurt pots, margarine tubs Food trays (e.g. ready meal trays) Punnets Foil trays and conta… Content last updated: 02 November 2023
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Update: Refuse / Recycling Collections
We are aware that parts of Treharris, Merthyr Vale, Town and Plymouth Wards are still awaiting refuse/recycling collections, and that other areas have experienced delays in collections over the festiv… Content last updated: 08 January 2026
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Welsh Government 70% Recycling Target
Welsh Government 70% Recycling Target is a campaign to ensure that every household in Merthyr Tydfil recycles. It targets the small minority of people who don’t recycle at all or who recycle very litt… Content last updated: 21 August 2025
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How to order recycling, food, and garden waste containers
Wheeled Bin Charges An administration and delivery charge will apply for any new or replacement wheeled bins. Details of this charge can be found on our Fees and Charges page: https://www.merthyr.gov.… Content last updated: 31 March 2026
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Merthyr Tydfil hits recycling target for eighth consecutive year
Residents of Merthyr Tydfil recycled, composted, or re-used 64.8% of waste in the past year – surpassing the Welsh Government (WG) target of 64%! Although we reduced the amount of waste we sent to E… Content last updated: 08 December 2023
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Update From the Chief Executive RE waste & recycling collections
I recognise the frustration and inconvenience caused to residents who have experienced delays to refuse, food and recycling collections over the festive period. I would like to offer my sincere apolog… Content last updated: 12 January 2026
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Combat ‘ych-a-fi’ to unleash the power of your food waste recycling
Wales may be a small country, but when it comes to recycling, we punch way above our weight. With 95% of us regularly recycling our waste, we’re already the third best recycling nation in the world, a… Content last updated: 09 February 2023
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Household Recycling Centre Map
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Plastics recycling plant would create more than 100 jobs
Local residents are being consulted on plans to construct a plastic recycling and processing facility that would create more than 100 local jobs. As well as providing around 110-plus direct employment… Content last updated: 03 March 2022
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Warning issued against recycling gas canisters and laptop batteries
A warning is being issued for Merthyr Tydfil County Borough residents not to put any gas canisters, such as those used in camping, out with their kerbside recycling or wheeled bin collections. During… Content last updated: 03 September 2021
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We want your help to name the Councils new recycling vehicles!
We heard of an English Council giving its residents the opportunity to name their gritting fleet, with some wonderfully creative names being suggested; David Plowie, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang, Walter Th… Content last updated: 22 December 2022