Rubbish & Waste Disposal in Portsmouth
Licensed waste-carrier, recycle-first disposal. Vetted, insured crews across PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4, PO5, PO6 — with a fixed price agreed before we start, from £95.
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- £1m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
Rubbish & Waste Disposal · Portsmouth
from £95
Fixed price, quoted before we arrive
- Postcodes
- PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4, PO5, PO6
- Availability
- 7 days
- Cover
- £1m liability
- Licence
- CBDU300454
What we can show you for Portsmouth
Portsmouth access and housing notes
PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4, PO5, PO6 housing stock and loading reality, written for Portsmouth rather than the county.
Rubbish & Waste Disposal in Portsmouth: what actually matters here
A unitary city built mostly on Portsea Island, one of the most densely populated places in the United Kingdom, with long naval terraces, Victorian Southsea and a mainland northern edge at Cosham and Drayton.
The housing stock is Dense Victorian and Edwardian bylaw terraces through Fratton, Buckland, North End, Copnor and Milton, most of them without off-street parking; large Victorian villas and conversion flats across Southsea; naval and post-war housing at Paulsgrove and Wymering; and suburban semis with drives on the mainland at Cosham, Drayton and Farlington, which decides the tools, protection and crew size we bring to a rubbish & waste disposal job.
Portsmouth is the hardest access in the county and it is not close. Portsea Island's terraced grid is almost entirely resident permit parking with narrow carriageways, no driveways and, in much of Southsea and Fratton, no legal place to leave a Luton for an hour. We plan a stopping point, a suspension where one is needed, or a smaller vehicle with a shuttle, and the carry goes in the written quote. Portsmouth City Council is a unitary authority running its own tip, parking scheme and bulky collections. It also operates a Class B Clean Air Zone, which charges non-compliant buses, coaches, taxis, private hire vehicles and HGVs — vans and cars are not charged, so nothing we bring to a domestic job attracts the fee.
Southsea, Old Portsmouth and Fratton all sit inside the Portsmouth round. Whichever of PO1, PO2 and PO3 your address falls in, the rubbish & waste disposal quote is built the same way.
Portsmouth is one of the larger settlements in the county; the streets around The Historic Dockyard and Spinnaker Tower, with the M275 the single motorway approach onto the island are the ones where we most often check loading arrangements in advance.
What a rubbish & waste disposal job includes
Rubbish removal is man-and-van waste collection: we load it, we sweep up and we dispose of it legally. Pricing is by the volume of the van you actually fill — £65 minimum collection for a single item, £110 a quarter load, £180 a half load, £240 three-quarters and £310 for a full load of roughly 12 cubic yards — with labour and tip fees included. It is not a skip: nothing needs a permit, nothing sits on your drive for a week, and you are not the one carrying it out.
What we take
- Household and office rubbish, bagged or loose
- Furniture, sofas, wardrobes, desks and office chairs
- White goods and electricals through the WEEE route
- Bulky one-offs — mattresses, carpets, garden furniture, exercise equipment
- Building and refurbishment waste as a separately priced heavy stream
How the collection runs
- Two-person crew who carry it out — from the room, the garage or the garden, not just the kerb
- Loading route protected and the area brushed up before we leave
- Volume measured against the van and confirmed with you before loading, so the price is agreed not estimated
- Same-day and next-day slots where a van is already in the area
Disposal and paperwork
- Registered upper-tier waste carrier, Environment Agency CBDU300454
- Usable items offered to charity partners before anything is treated as waste
- Loads segregated at a licensed transfer station, with over 90% diverted from landfill
- Digital waste transfer note issued in your name, usually the same day
What changes the price on a rubbish & waste disposal job
- Always take the transfer note. Householders have a legal duty of care for their waste, and fly-tipped rubbish traced back to your address is your problem unless you can show who took it.
- Volume is the price, so how it is stacked matters. Broken-down flat-pack and flattened cardboard take a fraction of the space of the same items whole, and that difference is real money.
- Some items carry a per-item charge because the permitted facility charges them separately: fridges and freezers need degassing from £45, and mattresses, tyres, paint and upholstered seating covered by the POPs rules have their own disposal route. These are quoted before the van arrives.
- Heavy waste — soil, rubble, hardcore, plasterboard — is charged as its own stream by weight rather than volume, because that is how the transfer station charges us.
- Asbestos, clinical waste, chemicals, fuel and gas bottles are outside our licence and are sub-contracted to a licensed handler rather than loaded.
Rubbish & Waste Disposal prices for Portsmouth properties
| Job | From | What it covers | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden & green waste | £95 | Cut, bagged and removed | 1–3 hours |
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Where we cover around Portsmouth
- SouthseaPO5
- Old PortsmouthPO1
- FrattonPO1
- BucklandPO1
- North EndPO2
- HilseaPO2
- CopnorPO3
- BaffinsPO3
- MiltonPO4
- EastneyPO4
- CoshamPO6
- DraytonPO6
- FarlingtonPO6
- PaulsgrovePO6
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Portsmouth questions, answered.
How quickly can you book rubbish & waste disposal in Portsmouth?
Same-week slots are standard in Portsmouth, with next-day often available midweek. Month-end tenancy changeovers are the busiest window across Hampshire, so book those a week or two ahead.
How does this compare with hiring a skip?
A skip needs a permit on the road, sits there for days, and you load it yourself. A van collection is loaded by us, gone the same visit, and priced by what you actually fill rather than by the skip size you had to guess.
Can you come today?
Often, depending on where the van already is that morning. Same-day and next-day slots are normal for quarter and half loads; a full house-worth of waste is better booked in so we send the right crew and van count.
What proof do I get that it was disposed of legally?
A digital waste transfer note in your name, usually the same day, from an Environment Agency registered upper-tier carrier (CBDU300454). That note is your evidence of duty of care, and you should insist on one from anybody who takes waste away.