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Check your bin collection day

Find out when your next bin collection day is.

Click on the link below to find out when your next bin collection day is by selecting your address.

Find out when your next bin collection day is

About your collections

Find out how often your bins are collected.

We collect your food and garden waste in your green-lidded bin every week.

We also collect small waste electrical items, low-energy light bulbs, vapes, batteries, textiles and paired shoes every week. Put them in separate plastic carrier bags and leave them on top of your bin to be collected.

We collect your recycling in your blue-lidded recycling bin fortnightly.

We collect your general waste in your black bin fortnightly.

Your recycling collection alternates every week with your black bin collection. For example, your blue-lidded recycling bin is collected on one week and your black general waste bin the next.

This system is known as alternate weekly collections or AWC.

Revised collection dates

Your normal collection day may change during some public holiday periods. Put your bins out on the revised dates listed below rather than on your normal collection day.

Christmas and New Year collections

Normal collection dayRevised collection day
Thursday 25 DecemberSaturday 27 December
Friday 26 DecemberMonday 29 December
Tuesday 30 DecemberTuesday 30 December
Wednesday 31 DecemberWednesday 31 December
Thursday 1 JanuaryFriday 2 January
Friday 2 JanuarySaturday 3 January
Collections return to normal on Tuesday 6 January 2026.

Easter collections

Normal collection dayRevised collection day
Friday 3 AprilSaturday 4 April
Collections return to normal on Tuesday 7 April 2026.

More information

  • Love Essex – official website of the Essex Waste Partnership

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