Household waste and recycling

The following information sets out what is seen as our standard resident waste and recycling service, as detailed in the Council’s Waste and Recycling Policy. Our general waste and recycling collection service, is provided using wheeled bins for different kinds of waste, while also providing a small food bin. 

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.

For a small number of properties, we must collect waste and recycling in bags rather than wheeled bins due to storage issues or due to a requirement to carry wheeled bins to up or down stairs to present waste for collection. If our standard vehicles are not safely able to access a properties collection point then a bag only collection waste and recycling service will be provided this is referred to as our Residential Bag-Only Waste and Collection Service.

For many flats located in the borough we provide a Communal Waste and Recycling Collection Service. For both these distinct types of residential waste and recycling services we may use different types of waste containers to collect from and they may have a unique collection schedule based on the requirements of the residential buildings accessing these services and their location. 

Your street's collections

If you are receiving our general residential waste and collection services you can use the alphabetical list of streets provided below to determine a residential properties collection schedule based on its location within the borough. Alternatively, if you reside in a house or you are receiving our ‘bag-only’ residential waste and recycling services you can also view your collection schedule by using our postcode lookup form to view your collection schedule. To determine what type of waste will be collected and when we plan to next visit the property. 

Select the first letter of the street name to view details of the collection schedule for the properties receiving our general waste and recycling service, the day of collection and whether it's a 'Round A' or 'Round B': 
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

Once you have determined the day of collection what round your property is on, you can use the table below what types of waste are to be collected next from the property.  

Things to remember 

• to present your waste and recycling material for collection before  6am on its scheduled day of collection 

• to leave the required waste containers 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 waste if is not easily accessible 

• to use the right waste container for the distinct types of waste and recycling services provided to your property 

• contaminated waste containers will not be emptied – check what goes in your bins 

• collections may not be at the same time every week 

• where applicable we will only collect waste from bins with the lid shut 

• we will collect extra recycling as side waste if presented as per our instruction, but we will not collect non-recyclable waste or garden waste, side waste unless we have given notice – for more on side waste, go to what goes in your bins 

For more details regarding our residential waste and recycling,  please see our waste and recycling collection policy. NEEDS LINK