This waste management A-Z answers frequently asked local recycling and waste questions. It also provides information and links on many less common waste issues.

All waste types refer to domestic (or household) waste unless otherwise stated.

A
Abandoned vehicles
Aerosols
Alconbury Recycling Centre
Ammunition (safe disposal)
Animal waste - including hay (disposal)
Asbestos (disposal)

B
Bags/sacks (waste) - collection
Batteries (disposal/recycling)
- Car
- Household
Beds (disposal)
Bins (collection)
Black bags/sacks (collection - household)
Blue bags/sacks (collection - trade)
Bluntisham Recycling Centre
Bottles (recycling)
- Glass
- Plastic
Book recycling
Bring Sites (Recycling Points)
Brown bags/sacks (green waste collection)
Buckden Education Centre
Bulky items (disposal)
- Collection
- Disposal
Bus (Recycling Bus)
Business waste (trade waste)

C
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Waste Partnership
Campaigns (Cambridgeshire County Council)
- Get Composting
- Smart Shopping
Cans (recycling)
- Aerosols
- Food and drinks cans
Car batteries (recycling)
Car parts (disposal)
Cardboard (recycling)
Cards (recycling)
Cars
- Abandoned
- Disposal
Central heating oil tanks (disposal)
Cesspits/pools (emptying)
Charity shops
Chemicals (disposal)
Christmas
- Collections
- Opening times (Recycling Centres) 
City Council contacts
Civic Amenity sites (Recycling Centres)
Clinical waste (disposal)
Closed landfills
Clothes (recycling)
Collection (bulky items)
Collections (kerbside - recycling)
Collection (waste)
Collection day
Commercial Waste
Compost
- At home
- Taking to Recycling Centres
Compost bins (where to get one)
Composting
Computer equipment (disposal/recycling)
Concrete (disposal/reprocessing)
Contact details (waste)
- Cambridgeshire County Council
- District Councils (Cambridgeshire)
- Environment Agency
- Recycling Centres
- Neighbouring County Councils
- Contractors
Cookers (disposal/recycling)
Cooking oil - recycling
Cooking oil - trade (disposal)
Cotton reusable shopping bags

D
Dangerous waste (hazardous waste)
- Household
- Trade
Directories (recycling)
- Regular directories
Disposal (waste/recyclables)
District Council contacts
Domestic waste (household waste)
- Collection
- Disposal
Doorstep collection (recycling)
Doorstep collection (waste)
Drinks cans (recycling)
Dryers (disposal/recycling)
Dumps (Recycling Centres)
Dustbins (collection)

E
Education (Recycling Bus)
Education Centre (Buckden)
Electrical Equipment
Engine oil (disposal/recycling)
Engines (disposal/recycling)
Environment Agency (waste regulation issues)
Environmental Health Issues
Exchanges (Waste Exchanges)
Explosives (disposal)

F
Faeces - animal waste (disposal)
Fluorescent tubes (disposal)
Fly tipping
Foil (recycling)
Food cans (recycling)
Fridges (recycling)
Freezers (recycling)
Furniture (disposal)

G
Garden waste (green waste for composting)
Gas bottles (disposal)
Get Composting campaign
Glass (recycling)
- Bottles/jam jars
Green bins (green waste collection)
Green boxes (kerbside collection)
Green waste (for composting)
Grunty Fen Recycling Centre
Guns (safe disposal)

H
Hardcore (disposal/reprocessing)
Hay - inc animal waste (disposal)
Hazardous waste (disposal)
Home composting
Household waste
- Collection
- Disposal

I
Insulation

J
Junk Mail

K
Kerbside collection

L
Landfills
Landfill community fund
Licences (waste carrying/handling)
Light Bulbs
Link to Recap.co.uk
Local recycling facilities
Local Plan (Waste Local Plan)
Local recycling information
Loft Insulation

M
March Recycling Centre
MBT
Mechanical Biological Treatment plant
Metal (recycling)
Microwaves (disposal/recycling)
Milton Recycling Centre
Missed collections (bins)
Mobile phones (disposal/recycling)

N
Nappies
Needles - clinical waste (disposal)
NetRegs - environmental guidance for businesses New Recycling Centres
-St Neots
-Witchford

O
Office paper (recycling)
Oil (disposal/recycling)
- Cooking
- Engine
Oil tanks (disposal)
Opening times (Recycling Centres)
Ovens

P
Packaging (reduction of)
Packaging waste - trade (disposal)
Paint (disposal)
Pallets (disposal)
Paper (recycling)
- Household
- Work
Pensioners - District Council help with waste
PFI
Phone books (recycling) 
Planning - proposed new waste/recycling sites
Plasterboard
Plastics (recycling)
Private waste management contractors

Q

R
Radiators (disposal)
Radios
Recap.co.uk
Recycling
- At Home (kerbside)
- At Recycling Centres
- At Work
- At Recycling Points (local bring sites)
- Composting
- More information
Recycling Bus
Recycling Centres
Recycling collections (kerbside)
Recycling contacts
- County Council
- District Councils
Recycling information
Reduction of waste
Restrictions (waste)
- Collection
- Recycling Centres
Reusable cotton shopping bags
Rubble (disposal/reprocessing)

S
Sacks/bags (collection)
Schools Education Centre (Buckden)
Schools Recycling Bus
Scrap metals (recycling)
Septic tank (emptying)
Sharps (disposal)
Shoes (recycling)
Shopping bags - cotton, reusable
Shopping - reduction of waste through 'Smart Shopping'
Skip hire
Smart Shopping Campaign
Soil (disposal/reprocessing)
Special waste (disposal)
St Neots Recycling Centre
Steel (recycling)
Stereos
Strategy (25 year Waste Management Strategy)

T
Tanks (disposal)
Televisions (disposal)
Telephone books (recycling)
- Regular directories
Textiles - clothes (recycling)
Thriplow Recycling Centre
Timber (disposal/recycling)
Tins (recycling)
Tips (Recycling Centres) 
Toxic waste (disposal)
Trade waste (disposal)
Trailer restrictions at Recycling Centres
Tyres (disposal)

U

V
Vans at Recycling Centres
Vehicles at Recycling Centres
Vehicles - abandoned

W
Wardrobes (disposal)
Washing machines (disposal/recycling)
Waste carriers licences
Waste exchanges (commercial waste)
Waste Local Plan
Waste planning
Waste reduction at work
Waste types
Wheelie bins (collections)
White bags/sacks (collection - trade)
White goods (recycling)
Whittlesey Recycling Centre
Wisbech Recycling Centre
Wood (recycling)
- Garden waste
- Timber

X

Y
Yellow bags/sacks (clinical waste)

Z