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IF YOU RUN A BUSINESS IN BRIGHTON, THE TIP IS NOT AN OPTION
This catches people out constantly, so it is worth being blunt about.
“It is illegal to tip any trade/business waste at our sites. The sites are also not licensed to accept commercial waste.”
— Brighton & Hove City Council
It does not matter that the laptops came from a small office, or that you would be taking them in your own car.
Even if it were allowed, the practicalities rule it out. Brighton & Hove City Council requires photo ID showing a Brighton & Hove address plus a matching proof of residency dated within the last three months — and two forms of it if you turn up in a van. It refuses anything at 3,500kg or over, any Luton or box body, and any flatbed, tipper or dropside — at both sites, with trailers banned outright at the Brighton site. There is no version of a business IT clear-out that fits comfortably through that door.
Businesses have a separate duty of care for waste electricals under the WEEE Regulations, and you are required to be able to show where the equipment went. That is what we give you: a documented collection, certified data destruction, and a waste transfer record.
Anyone moving your waste commercially has to be a registered waste carrier. We are — registration CBDU607333, checkable on the Environment Agency public register, and listed on our certifications page.
BOOK A BUSINESS COLLECTIONAND IF YOU ARE CLEARING OUT AT HOME, HERE IS THE HONEST COMPARISON
You can take a computer to a Brighton & Hove City site. Here is where they are.
Brighton Household Waste Recycling Site
Main siteOff Wilson Avenue, Whitehawk, Brighton BN2 5PA
Monday to Friday 8am to 4.30pm, weekends and bank holidays 9am to 5pm
Hove Household Waste Recycling Site
Off Old Shoreham Road, between Aldrington Avenue and Leighton Road, Hove BN3 7AE
Monday to Friday 8am to 4.30pm, Saturday 8.30am to 1.30pm, Sunday 10.30am to 1.30pm. Closed bank holidays
They will take it. But you will need photo ID showing a Brighton & Hove address plus a matching proof of residency dated within the last three months — and two forms of it if you turn up in a van, a car, and a free hour in opening hours — and the machine is processed for its materials. Nobody uses it again.
We collect from your door for nothing, wipe the data to NIST 800-88 standard, and if the machine still has life in it we refurbish it and pass it on. If it is genuinely dead, we recycle it responsibly — and tell you that is what happened.
THE COUNCIL RECYCLES THE COMPUTER.
WE TRY TO KEEP IT A COMPUTER.
WHERE WE COLLECT IN BRIGHTON
BN1, BN2 and BN3 across Brighton, Hove, Kemptown, Hanover, Preston Park, Hollingbury and Portslade, plus BN41 and the villages either side. Anywhere a van would be turned away at Wilson Avenue, in other words.
We collect nationwide by courier, or send you a prepaid postage label if you would rather drop it off — there is no fixed local round to wait for, so book whenever suits you. Labels and QR codes are issued between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Outside the area? We collect across the UK — book a collection anywhere.