Tips and recycling centres
How to get rid of old carpet and rugs
Ask your carpet fitter to take the old carpet away, or take it to a tip. Rugs in good condition can be sold or given away.
Your carpet fitter
Ask the fitter to take the old carpet away when they lay the new one.
Tips
Carpet that cannot be used again can go to a tip.
Sell or donate
Carpets and rugs in good condition can be sold or given to charity.
Charity shops cannot take offcuts
The British Heart Foundation lists carpet offcuts among the items it cannot accept.
Key facts
- Binmap lists 59 tips that say they take carpets and rugs.
- Another 461 places may take carpets and rugs, but they do not say so. Check before you go.
Last updated: 15 October 2026
Written by Binmap using guidance from Recycle Now and the British Heart Foundation.
Pages from the organisations involved
Advice from national bodies
What to do
- Roll the carpet up and tie it.
- Cut long runs into lengths you can lift.
Kinds of place that take it
- Recycling centres
- Collection services
More local guides
- Carpets and rugs in Accrington
- Carpets and rugs in Altham
- Carpets and rugs in Appley Bridge
- Carpets and rugs in Burnley
- Carpets and rugs in Camelon
- Carpets and rugs in Clayton-le-Moors
- Carpets and rugs in Clitheroe
- Carpets and rugs in Falkirk
- Carpets and rugs in Farington Moss
- Carpets and rugs in Fulwood
- Carpets and rugs in Grangemouth
- Carpets and rugs in Hallglen
Other kinds of place
Schemes and collection services
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