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Recycling Centre Checker
Your bins are one council’s job. Your local tip is usually a different authority’s. This tells your visitors which one is theirs — and whether a business is allowed to use it.
Drop it on your own page in one line. Built for council waste pages, business support and chambers of commerce, school and library sites, and community groups. It covers all 397 UK councils and districts and maps each one to the 218 authorities that actually run the recycling centres.
Recycling Centre Checker
Visitors search their council or district and get the authority that actually runs their recycling centres, plus whether business waste is accepted there where we have verified it.
Useful on: Council waste pages, business support pages, chambers of commerce.
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Dark page? Add ?theme=dark
The widget is light by default, because most host pages are. If yours is dark, append ?theme=dark to the src and it switches. Nothing else changes.
Optional: make it resize itself
The version above is a fixed height and scrolls inside itself, which works everywhere. If your CMS allows inline script, this version resizes to fit its content instead. Many council CMSs strip script from page content, so check it actually runs before relying on it.
<iframe
id="dcuk-council-waste-rules"
src="https://donatecomputers.uk/embed/council-waste-rules"
title="Recycling Centre Checker"
width="100%"
height="460"
style="border:0;max-width:640px"
loading="lazy"
></iframe>
<script>
window.addEventListener('message', function (e) {
if (e.origin !== 'https://donatecomputers.uk') return;
if (!e.data || e.data.type !== 'donatecomputers:height') return;
var f = document.getElementById('dcuk-council-waste-rules');
if (f) f.height = e.data.height;
});
</script>Questions people ask before embedding it
- What does the Recycling Centre Checker do?
- A visitor types their council or district and it tells them which authority actually runs their local household waste recycling centre — which is often not the council that empties their bins — and, where we have verified it, whether that site accepts business waste.
- Why would my council not run its own recycling centre?
- In two-tier areas the district council collects your bins but the county council runs the tips, so residents are routinely sent to the wrong website. The widget resolves that automatically: it maps all 397 UK councils and districts to the 218 authorities that run disposal.
- Is it really free, and what is the catch?
- It is free to use on any site, including a commercial one. The only condition is that you keep the small attribution link in the widget. That link is why it is free.
- Does it set cookies or track my visitors?
- No. The widget sets nothing on your visitors’ devices — no cookies, no tracking, no local storage — so there should be nothing to add to your cookie policy. Worth checking against your own rules, but there is nothing there to declare.
- Do I need to add JavaScript to my page?
- No. The standard snippet is a single iframe with a fixed height and no script at all, because many council and school content management systems strip inline script from page content. An optional auto-resizing version is offered for sites that do allow script.
- How accurate is the business waste information?
- The authority lookup covers every UK council and district. Business waste positions are only shown where we have read them off that authority’s own published pages — 20 of 218 so far. Everywhere else the widget says plainly that we have not verified it and links to that council’s own site. It never guesses.
The terms, such as they are
Use it on any site, including a commercial one. Keep the attribution link — it is the only thing we ask, and it is why the widget is free.
No cookies, no tracking, no storage. The widget sets nothing on your visitors’ devices, so it should not need adding to your cookie policy. Worth checking against your own rules, but there is nothing there to declare.
It will not invent an answer. Where we have not verified a council’s business waste position, the widget says so and points people at that council’s own pages. It will never attribute a policy to an authority we have not read.
We may change how the widget looks. We will not change the URL, and if a widget is ever retired the embed will explain itself rather than going blank.
Every answer the widget gives comes from our open dataset of UK waste authorities, which shows its sources and marks anything unverified as unverified.
Something you would find more useful? Tell us — a widget somebody has asked for is worth more than one we guessed at.