Bins and recycling

Christmas collection dates

Your recycling and waste collection dates will change over the festive period. Check your collection calendar to see your updated collection dates.

Our crews will be out on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 December as well as Saturday 4 January.

To reduce your waste and help speed up collections over Christmas, visit our Christmas recycling and waste page.

Recycling centres

All recycling centres are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. They will close at 12 noon on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

What goes in your bins

Find out what to put in your recycling, food waste, rubbish and garden waste containers

Recycling and rubbish collections

Search for your next collection dates, report a missed collection, arrange assisted collections, and sign up for our garden waste service

Recycling centres

Locations and opening times of recycling centres, what you can bring and how to get a vehicle permit if you need one

Recycling bag trial

We will be giving 6,000 households a new recycling bag to use as part of a trial

Reduce and reuse

How to reduce your household waste and how we reuse items at our recycling centres

Business waste

Information about disposing of commercial waste and our business waste service

Order a new bin

How to order or exchange black wheelie bins, recycling boxes, garden waste bins and compost bins 

Recycling and waste strategy

Find out more about our plans to reduce waste, increase recycling and improve the service up to 2030

Flats recycling and waste

Guidance on how to recycle when living in a flat

Recycling and waste workshop

We are excited to offer a tailored workshop for school children that focuses on waste and the environment.

Three weekly waste collections

Find out why we're changing the frequency of our black bin collections from 2025