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We clear rubbish and supply skips across Resolven, from John Street and Commercial Road to Neath Road, Clyne and Melincourt. Our trucks and vans reach the village from Jersey Marine in about 16 minutes by way of the A465. We are a registered waste carrier on the Environment Agency public register, number CBDU624489, and we aim to collect within 48 hours.
Resolven, Resolfen in Welsh, lies on the floor of the Vale of Neath about 8 miles north-east of Neath town, right beside the A465. The community counted 2,316 people at the 2011 census and takes in Abergarwed, Ynysarwed and Rheola as well as the village itself. It is a small place, and its shape decides how a waste job gets planned.
Much of the village hangs off a single line of streets: John Street, then Commercial Road, then Neath Road, which carries on as the B4434 down to Clyne and Tonna. When Commercial Road was shut in December 2021, the X7 bus could no longer get through and a shuttle had to carry passengers between Neath Road and Tonna. That is why our office asks where along the line you are, and whether a vehicle can stop outside, before anything is booked.
From the yard at Jersey Marine, a measured 12.3 miles away, we bring man and van rubbish removal, 4, 6 and 8 yard skips, skip bags and wheelie bin hire to every part of it.
Resolven's streets still carry the names of the people who sank its pits. Lyons Place, the oldest industrial terrace in the village, is named after the colliery owner J.W. Lyon, and the John, Cory and Yeo company gave its name to four more: John Street, Cory Street, Yeo Street and Company Street. They were laid out generations before anyone needed room for a skip.
On a terrace without a drive the skip has to sit on the road, and that means a permit from Neath Port Talbot Council. Our office sorts the permit as part of the booking. The council's Streetworks team inspects each proposed spot individually, typically takes three to five working days, and a skip should not go down until approval comes through. A permit runs for 28 days and a refusal cannot be appealed, so tell us early which stretch of the street you have in mind.
Neath Road and Glynneath Road have a wider mix, with semi-detached and detached houses among the terraces, and a skip on your own drive needs no permit at all. We supply a 4 yard skip that holds about 40 to 50 bin bags, a 6 yard at 60 to 70 and an 8 yard at 70 to 80. Where neither the road nor a drive will work, try a skip bag on a forecourt or a patch of garden, which our truck lifts away once you tell us it is full.
The village's history society describes how a collier's coal used to arrive: tipped outside by lorry, then carried in buckets through the house to the shed out the back. On a terrace with no rear lane, a clearance today follows that route in reverse, and it is the work our man and van crews are there for. Two of us bring the wardrobes, beds, boxes and sofas down from upstairs and out through the hall to the truck or van, then sweep up behind us.
Nothing has to be dragged to the kerb beforehand or left out overnight. A mixed load goes in one visit, and if you have been looking for a man with a van in Neath or up the valley, this is that service with the paperwork included.
We price by the volume the load fills on the vehicle, plus VAT, and the office confirms the price after a quick call or a few photos. A photo taken from the street helps as well, because it shows us where a truck can pull in.
Resolven's history society notes that people here have long called the refuse collection 'the ashes', a leftover from the days of coal fires and galvanised bins. Today it means one wheeled bin, or no more than three black bags, every fortnight, and the crews leave anything extra where it stands. Recycling goes weekly and has no limit.
The council's bulky items collection is the next step up. It takes up to seven items named on your booking form, put out at the front of the property the night before and kept dry, with crews working from 6am until 2pm. They cannot come inside your boundary, so on a terrace whose front door opens onto the pavement, the sofa has to be out there and covered overnight. If you have a few items and can manage that, the service may suit you well.
It will not take garden waste, sheds, fence panels, bags of rubbish, external doors and windows, kitchens and bathrooms, baths, toilets, mirrors, tiles or pianos, and it is closed to house clearances, building waste, businesses and landlords. Most of that list is routine work for our crews, and we collect it from wherever it sits on your property.
There is no council recycling centre in the village or anywhere in the upper valley. Neath Port Talbot sends residents to one of three sites: Briton Ferry, at the far end of the same canal that passes through Resolven; Cymmer, over the hill in the Afan Valley; or Lower Cwmtwrch in Powys.
A slot has to be booked for any of them. A van, pick-up or double axle trailer also needs a permit, issued with the booking and capped at 12 a year, counted from April to March, while tipper vans, flatbeds and large 7.5 tonne vans are not let on site at all. Each household can bring up to three sacks of rubble, soil, plaster or similar in a week before the weighbridge comes into it.
For a car boot of recycling, the trip is reasonable enough. A full load from John Street is another matter, with the A465 in both directions and a booked slot at the end of it. A load you hand to us needs no slot, no permit and no lifting on your part.
With the council's bulky service closed to house clearances and landlords, families and owners in Resolven need another route when a home has to be emptied. We clear single rooms or whole houses for a sale, the end of a tenancy or after a bereavement, at whatever pace suits you, and anything that looks personal or important is put aside and handed back. Some of these homes go back a long way: Lyons Place appears on the tithe map of 1842 and was eventually sold by the National Coal Board to its tenants, so a clearance here can mean several generations of belongings.
Good furniture need not go in the load. The council names the Enfys Foundation as its charity partner for items in sound condition and runs a reuse shop at Briton Ferry Recycling Centre, and we separate pieces for reuse wherever their condition allows.
Behind the house, the old coal shed, outhouse or garage is usually the last place anyone tackles, and we empty those too. Sheds, fence panels and garden waste are all refused by the council's bulky collection, so a garden clearance beneath the steep wooded slopes above the village goes onto our truck rather than out to the kerb.
Beside the A465, on the Neath side of the village, Neath Vale Business Park and Neath Vale Supplier Park hold industrial units, warehouses and offices. Occupiers have included a timber roof truss manufacturer and a recycling machinery supplier. For premises like these we supply 240, 660 and 1100 litre bins on weekly, fortnightly or monthly rounds, and we bring a truck for one-off unit and yard clearances.
Trade in the village itself is on a smaller scale. The council points visitors to Melincourt towards Resolven's pubs and cafes, and the rugby club, the football club and the community centre all sit here too. Trade waste is refused by the council's bulky collection, and a business must use a registered carrier and keep documents showing how its waste is dealt with.
Since 6 April 2024 the law in Wales has required all workplaces to present paper and card, glass, and metal, plastic and cartons separately for recycling, plus food waste where a site produces 5kg or more in seven consecutive days. We set up the right mix of bins for the premises and collect each stream on its own. Collections run five days a week, each with a waste transfer note for your file.
In May 2026 Swansea Magistrates Court sentenced five people over waste dumped in Rheola Forestry, near the village, following a prosecution by Neath Port Talbot Council. The Transit tipper involved was forfeited to the council and crushed. Not everyone convicted had done the tipping: two were convicted of failing in their duty of care by not making sure the waste was disposed of lawfully.
That duty reaches householders too. Under section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the occupier of a home must take reasonable steps to make sure household waste only goes to an authorised person. A low offer from a stranger with a pick-up does not lift that responsibility from you.
Our registration is there to be checked. We are a registered waste carrier on the Environment Agency public register, number CBDU624489, and every collection comes with a waste transfer note or receipt. Ask any collector for the same before a load leaves your street.
Below the village the B4434 passes Melincourt, with its 80ft waterfall, the ruins of its ironworks and a council car park opposite the reserve entrance, then runs along New Road and Cyd Terrace in Clyne on its way to Tonna. Clyne and Melincourt has its own community council and counted 819 people in 2011, and we cover it alongside Resolven.
Across the valley, Ynysarwed and Abergarwed follow the line of the canal, and the B4242 carries on along Glynneath Road past Rheola, where John Nash's Grade II* listed house stands close to the site of the aluminium works that ran from 1939 to 1981.
Neath is one way and Glynneath the other. The A465 and the Neath Canal tie the three together, and the restored towpath alone gives over four miles of walking between Resolven and Glynneath. Crynant lies to the north-west in the Dulais Valley. Each of these neighbours has a page of its own.
For anything else, our office is glad to help on 01639 630282, Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm, closed weekends.
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Send the enquiry now; the office calls back in opening hours with a confirmed price, plus VAT, and a collection slot.