IMPORTANT: Check here for the personal waste disposal guidance for anyone with coronavirus symptoms, including those diagnosed with the infection, and those in households with someone showing symptoms that may be caused by coronavirus. The standard refuse collection service for most households, (excluding communal properties) is fortnightly and is collected in a 180 litre wheeled refuse bin. If your property is unsuitable for a wheeled bin (due to steps or lack of off-road storage), up to 4 sacks of refuse will be taken each collection. Kerbside rubbish has for many years been landfilled in Somerset at two sites – Dimmer near Castle Cary and Walpole near Bridgwater – but as part of major changes to all waste services, it will soon all be sent to generate electricity at a state-of-the-art £252 million energy-from-waste plant being completed in Avonmouth. As well as electricity for the national grid, the energy-from-waste plant will also power a plastics reprocessing plant being built next door that could take some if not all of the plastics collected for recycling in Somerset. When are my collection days? You can check your collection days online Check now