Your bins | Household waste and recycling

Your household wheeled bins are for different kinds of waste. We are also providing small food bins for all houses in the borough.

Service	Collection details
Green/grey wheeled bins	Collections every 2 weeks on your usual day
Blue wheeled bins	Collections every 2 weeks on your usual day
Brown wheeled bins	Collections by subscription only, in the same weeks as blue bins on your usual day, except when we pause for winter
Food bins	Collections every week on your usual day

Each week, the bins we collect from your street will depend on whether it's a 'Round A' or 'Round B' street – we collect blue and brown bins from one round and green/grey bins from the other round, then swap over the following week.

In a small number of streets we must collect waste and recycling in bags rather than bins. We provide bags to households that receive this service. Garden and food waste must be placed in bags for non-recyclable waste as we cannot provide bin collections for these households.

Your street's collections

From Monday 24 February 2025 we will be introducing changes to our residential collection schedule, which may impact the day we collect your residential waste or what round your street is on (A or B). To ensure a seamless transition and for more information, please check your streets collection schedule below:

You can check the normal collection day for any street and whether it's a 'Round A' or 'Round B' street by selecting the first letter of the street name:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

The table below shows the next 'Round A' and 'Round B' collections.

Week-by-week wheeled bin collections for the whole borough

WEEK - MONDAY TO FRIDAY	ROUND A BINS	ROUND B BINS
31 March to 4 April	Green/Grey	Blue and Brown
7 April to 11 April	Blue and Brown	Green/Grey
14 April to 18 April	Green/Grey	Blue and Brown
21 April to 25 April	Blue and Brown	Green/Grey
28 April to 2 May	Green/Grey	Blue and Brown
5 May to 9 May	Blue and Brown	Green / Grey
12 May to 16 May	Green / Grey	Blue and Brown

Things to remember

It's important you remember:

to leave your bins out by 6am on the day of collection
to leave your bins at the kerbside or at your agreed collection point, as close as possible to the public footway or pavement without causing an obstruction for pedestrians – we will not collect your bins if they are not put in an easy-to-access place
to use the right bin for the different types of waste and recycling
contaminated bins will not be emptied – check what goes in your bins
collections may not be at the same time every week
we will only collect waste from bins with the lid shut
we will collect extra recycling as side waste if your blue bin is full, but we will not collect green/grey bin or brown bin side waste unless we have given notice – for more on side waste, go to what goes in your bins