Welcome To Wirral

• The Service is available to residents only

• The ERIC service is restricted to two furniture collections and two white goods collections free of charge. Subsequent requests will be charged £15 per visit.

• Streetscene will advise whether your items are classed as 'Furniture' or 'White Goods' (or both).

• All items to be collected must be specified e.g. Table & 6 Chairs, or bed-base, mattress, & chair not six items of furniture or up to six household items.

• Items to be collected must be left outside your home in the case of flats this must be on the ground floor, outside by 7am on the day of collection. (Collections will take place between 7am - 4pm, - unfortunately it is not possible to specify a particular time).

• Some items will not be removed by the ERIC Service, such as builders waste, or small items that can easily be disposed of in your wheelie bin.

• Businesses (including Charities) must make their own arrangements with a private Waste Contractor)

Please see below for lists of items we can and can’t take:

ERIC furniture we can collect: aerials, beds (bed base, mattress, & headboard counts as 3 items) barbecues, blinds (less than 6ft), bureaux, carpets, chairs, cupboards & chests, doors (not double glazed), electric fires & wooden fire surround, dressing tables (mirrors must be taped-up), 3-piece suites (counts as 3 items), filing cabinets (wooden), gas fires, calor gas heaters (bottles must be removed), garden furniture (except cast-iron, which is classed as White Goods), vacuum cleaners, humidifyers, ironing boards, wooden or melamine kitchen worktops (less than 6ft long), music centres, pouffes, prams, radios, rugs, stools, snooker tables (children's only), sunbeds (without the tubes), tables (not glass-topped), televisions, videos, wardrobes, wheelbarrows, window blinds, (less than 6ft).

ERIC Whites we can collect: bicycles, cast-iron garden furniture, cookers, filing cabinets (metal), domestic fridges, freezers, hobs, lawnmowers, lawn-rakes, microwaves, ovens, radiators (not storage or oil filled), heavy old-fashioned sewing machines, stainless-steel sink-tops, strimmers, washing machines, tumble dryers.

ERIC furniture/whites we cannot take: bathroom suites, bags or boxes filled with rubbish, 'belfast' sinks, boilers, building materials, boxes, cardboard & packaging, cement mixers, chipboard, cushions & other soft furnishings, coal bunkers, commercial fridges/freezers or other commercial kitchen equipment, double-glazed doors or windows, flags, door & window frames, downspouts, fence panels, fish tanks, garden waste, garage doors or roofs, garden tools, gas bottles, gates, guttering, glass, hot water heaters, mirrors/mirrored doors, oil drums, paraffin heaters, pianos or organs, pipes, planks, radiators (over 6ft in length), radiators (oil-filled or storage radiators), satellite dishes, sheds, stone sinks, tiles, fire-surrounds, skirting-boards, snooker tables, (full-sized), staircases, stone or marble worktops, water tanks, water butts, wood.

Important: Please note that the above lists are not exhaustive, if the item you wish us to remove is not on the list, please call 0151 606 2004 during office hours (9:00am - 5:00pm Monday to Friday) and talk to one of our advisers.

If you think your old furniture is in a good condition please consider recycling. Wirral-based charities will accept donations of unwanted furniture in good condition for refurbishment. Some will come and collect it from you.

Wirral Independent Recycling Enterprise (WIRE) Tel: 0151 638 6691 (currently awaiting Charity Status)