Crew sized to the job
One person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward. Cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access.
Greenwich · SE10 · Rubbish removal
Professional Rubbish removal in Greenwich, SE10
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Greenwich fitters · Fixed written pricesRubbish removal for Greenwich (SE10) households — 17,397 of them, 73% in flats. From £40 fixed, one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward Insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
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- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
SE10
- Rubbish removal in Greenwich SE10 from £40, fixed in writing
- Most booked here: flat-pack assembly on the day the keys are handed over
- Next-day slots are standard across every borough, and same-day collection is usually available if booked before mid-morning.
- Royal Borough of Greenwich permits, ULEZ itemised, never hidden
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,426 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- From, boot-load of mixed rubbish
- £40From, boot-load of mixed rubbish
- Greenwich homes are flats
- 73%Greenwich homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 31%Privately rented
- Households in Greenwich
- 17,397Households in Greenwich
Overview
Rubbish removal in Greenwich SE10, explained
Rubbish removal in Greenwich SE10 is a fixed-price visit for mixed-tenure homes in Greenwich, most of them Georgian and early Victorian. 17,397 households sit inside this SE10 patch, 73% of them flats, so we quote on access near The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark rather than a London average.
How it works
How rubbish removal works in Greenwich
Five steps, the same on every SE10 job, so you know what happens before you commit. New-build and conversion flats lined with dot-and-dab plasterboard, as the Greenwich stock goes, and with 31% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is what we plan for here.
Step 1
Photo or a quick video
Send a few photos of the pile or the room and the volume is confirmed against real reference points, not guessed.
Step 2
Fixed written quote
One figure covering volume, tip gate fee and any access cost, with our carrier registration number on it.
Step 3
Book a slot
Most postcodes have a next-day slot; same-day is usually available if you call before mid-morning.
Step 4
Load and go
The crew carries everything out and loads the van — you are not asked to help unless you want to.
Step 5
Transfer note by email
Site, weight and date confirmed the same day, which is what a landlord or the council asks for if waste is ever traced.
Why choose us
Why Greenwich customers book us
Local knowledge is not a slogan on this page — it is what stops a bracket coming out of a Greenwich wall.
Booked around your day
Next-day slots are standard across every borough, and same-day collection is usually available if booked before mid-morning. Cutty Sark (DLR) is the nearest station, so a SE10 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
Greenwich walls, not generic walls
We expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in SE10, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Insured and documented
Registered upper-tier waste carrier with the Environment Agency. A waste transfer note is issued for every collection, which is the document that protects you if rubbish is later found fly-tipped — liability for the waste otherwise sits with whoever produced it, not the person who took it away.
Fixed prices
Rubbish removal prices in Greenwich
Fixed prices for SE10 and the rest of Greenwich. Volume in the van is the main driver. Walk-up flats above the second floor with no lift, red-route frontages and permit-only bays are what add crew time to an otherwise identical load.
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boot-load of mixed rubbish | £40 | 15–30 min | Priced for a small car boot's worth — bin bags, packaging and small offcuts that do not justify a van visit. |
| Quarter-load (approx. 3 cubic yards) | £95 | 30–60 min | Charged on the volume the rubbish takes in the van, weighed against the transfer station's gate rate. |
| Half-load (approx. 6 cubic yards) | £165 | 45–90 min | A typical loft, garage or shed's worth of mixed general waste, loaded by hand from wherever it sits. |
| Full Luton load (approx. 12 cubic yards) | £300 | 1.5–3 hrs | Full van and the transfer-station charge, with the waste transfer note issued the same day. |
| Two-van full load | £560 | 3–5 hrs | Where one van cannot take the volume in a single trip; two crews run in parallel rather than one van doing two runs. |
| Rubbish removal with same-day booking | +£25 | Within hours | A dispatch premium for slotting a same-day job between booked collections rather than a next-day charge. |
Boot-load of mixed rubbish
£40 · 15–30 min
Priced for a small car boot's worth — bin bags, packaging and small offcuts that do not justify a van visit.
Quarter-load (approx. 3 cubic yards)
£95 · 30–60 min
Charged on the volume the rubbish takes in the van, weighed against the transfer station's gate rate.
Half-load (approx. 6 cubic yards)
£165 · 45–90 min
A typical loft, garage or shed's worth of mixed general waste, loaded by hand from wherever it sits.
Full Luton load (approx. 12 cubic yards)
£300 · 1.5–3 hrs
Full van and the transfer-station charge, with the waste transfer note issued the same day.
Two-van full load
£560 · 3–5 hrs
Where one van cannot take the volume in a single trip; two crews run in parallel rather than one van doing two runs.
Rubbish removal with same-day booking
+£25 · Within hours
A dispatch premium for slotting a same-day job between booked collections rather than a next-day charge.
Domestic prices are the total you pay. Landlord and letting-agent invoices are quoted plus VAT at 20%. Rubbish is priced by volume in the van, not by weight or by the hour, and the figure is confirmed before the crew is booked. Where a permit, bay suspension, ULEZ or the Congestion Charge applies it is itemised in the written quote.
Scope
What's included in Greenwich
The same scope across SE10, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- On SE10 jobs: loading from inside the property, garden or garage — nothing has to be bagged and dragged to the kerb, with 73% of homes here being flats, planned around the stair or the lift
- In Greenwich: a waste transfer note emailed the same day, naming the transfer station and the weight taken, the way it is done on Greenwich jobs
- Sweep-up of the area once the rubbish is loaded — including local rubbish removal
- Standard on Greenwich bookings: recyclable material — card, metal, wood and textiles — separated from general waste before tipping, arranged with Royal Borough of Greenwich where the kerb needs it
Not included
- Hazardous waste — paint, solvents, gas bottles, asbestos and clinical waste — which needs a specialist licensed carrier, and we will say so before the SE10 visit rather than on the day
- Anything fixed to the building, such as kitchen units still plumbed in or a fitted bathroom suite, outside the fixed price on Greenwich bookings
- Trade waste from a registered business, which is quoted separately with a commercial waste transfer note, quoted separately if you need it arranged in SE10
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Coverage
Where we work around Greenwich SE10
Rubbish removal across Greenwich and the SE10 district, mapped below.
Also in this area
Other handyman work in Greenwich
Same fitters, same SE10 rounds, same fixed-price approach.
Clearance services in Greenwich
Single items, part-loads, garden waste and office strip-outs across the borough.
Rubbish disposal in Greenwich
The wider rubbish disposal hub — every waste stream we collect, in one place.
Furniture disposal in Greenwich
Sofas, beds, wardrobes and mattresses collected per item, dismantling included.
House and flat clearance in Greenwich
Whole-property clears, probate and end-of-tenancy strip-outs, sorted room by room.
Spring cleaning in Greenwich
A full top-to-bottom clean of the property once it has been emptied.
Most booked alongside this in Greenwich SE10
Working in Greenwich
Greenwich SE10 at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers Greenwich — the numbers that actually change a rubbish removal quote.
The SE10 stock around The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark is Georgian and early Victorian. ONS records 73% flats, 27% houses and 17,397 households in Greenwich.
Owner-occupation runs at 40% in Greenwich, so alongside the 31% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here, so the fixing that matters in Greenwich is chosen on site — the usual failure here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded.
Anyone who knows Greenwich knows the pattern near The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark: world Heritage centre of the market, the Cutty Sark and the Observatory on the hill. We plan the SE10 visit around it. Greenwich is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access. Cutty Sark (DLR) is the nearest station, and one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward.
Area at a glance
Greenwich SE10 by the numbers
Who lives in Greenwich and what they live in decides how rubbish removal is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Greenwich & Deptford Creekside and Greenwich East and Greenwich Peninsula and Greenwich Town & Park neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
39,629
Residents
Greenwich & Deptford Creekside and Greenwich East and Greenwich Peninsula and Greenwich Town & Park neighbourhood, Census 2021
17,397
Households
Median age 32.6
Flats vs houses
Flats 72.9%Houses 27%
Residents by sex
Male48.5%
Female51.5%
Single-person households
31.6%
Privately rented
30.9%
- Median age
- 32.6
- Owner-occupied
- 40.3%
- Social rented
- 28.7%
- Postcode districts
- SE10
- Nearest station
- Cutty Sark
- Parking
- CPZ + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Greenwich & Deptford Creekside, Greenwich East, Greenwich Peninsula, Greenwich Town & Park (E02006928, E02006930, E02006931, E02006992) — the published geography that covers Greenwich, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE10 district: 51.4849, 0.0007 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
Rubbish removal in Greenwich SE10 — your questions.
How much does rubbish removal cost in Greenwich SE10?
Boot-load of mixed rubbish starts at £40 in Greenwich in this 73% flats neighbourhood, with 32% one-person households here, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Volume in the van is the main driver. Walk-up flats above the second floor with no lift, red-route frontages and permit-only bays are what add crew time to an otherwise identical load in Greenwich, with 73% of homes here being flats.
Do you assemble IKEA and other flat-pack furniture in Greenwich SE10?
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on this side of Greenwich, with 17,397 households on this patch. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Greenwich most weeks in this 73% flats neighbourhood, with 32% one-person households here.
How long does flat-pack assembly take in Greenwich?
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in this 73% flats neighbourhood, with 73% of homes here being flats. Near The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark that usually means an earlier start so the van can be unloaded once.
Will a built wardrobe fit through a Greenwich doorway?
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in around Cutty Sark (DLR). With 73% of Greenwich homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in Greenwich, with 27% of Greenwich homes being houses — and 40% owner-occupation locally, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Who books rubbish removal in Greenwich SE10 — tenants, landlords or owners?
All three. With 31% of Greenwich privately rented and 40% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE10 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on the Greenwich rounds — and 29% social-rented stock nearby, with 73% of homes here being flats.
How quickly can you reach Greenwich from your Greenwich round?
The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark is the marker we route to in this 73% flats neighbourhood — and 29% social-rented stock nearby, with 31% of SE10 homes being privately rented, and cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access. A SE10 slot added to an existing Greenwich round usually lands the same week rather than the next on Greenwich bookings, with this being a short walk from Cutty Sark (DLR).
Is same-day or evening rubbish removal available in Greenwich?
Next-day slots are standard across every borough, with 73% of homes here being flats, and same-day collection is usually available if booked before mid-morning on Greenwich bookings. Greenwich sits close to Cutty Sark (DLR), with The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark a few streets away, so we can usually add a SE10 job to an existing Greenwich round at short notice in this 73% flats neighbourhood.
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