Bins and collections

Check your collection dates, report a missed collection, get a new bin or box, and find out more about bins and collections in the city.

Collections

Check your bin, box and caddy collection days
Use this form to check when your next collection is due.
Report a missed bin, box or caddy collection
If your rubbish, recycling, food waste or garden waste hasn't been collected, please wait until after 10pm on your collection day to let us know.
Garden waste collections
Find out how to sign up for and renew garden waste collections, and what you can put in your garden waste bin.
Food waste collections
Find out more about our new food waste collection service, and how it works.
Get your large and electrical household items collected

Find out about our collection service and other ways to dispose of large and electrical household items, sometimes known as bulky waste.
Assisted collections
If you physically can't move your bins or boxes, we may help you take your rubbish or recycling out. Read our guidance on assisted collections.
Get your household clinical waste collected
Types of clinical waste collection, what can be collected and how to book a collection.

Bins

Get a new bin, box or caddy, or report an unused one
Get a new bin, box or caddy, or ask us for a different size or report an unused or abandoned one.
How to use wheelie bins
Where you should put your rubbish or recycling wheelie bins on collection days and what you can put in them.
How to use your recycling bins and boxes
What to put into your recycling bins and boxes, what waste should be kept separate and where to put your box for collection.
How to use communal rubbish bins
What you can put in our communal or shared bins for non-recyclables. These are the large shared black rubbish bins on streets, or shared medium and large bins for blocks of flats.
How to use communal recycling bins
What you can put in communal or shared recycling bins. These are the large recycling bins on streets or shared bins for blocks of flats.
Find barbecue bins near the beach
Barbecue bins near our beaches are yellow and have signs showing what they’re for. Find out where they are in our map of barbecue bins.