All UK Councils Bin Day Checkers
Every local authority in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Find your council and go straight to its official bin day checker.
District, borough, city, unitary and metropolitan councils.
Every Scottish unitary authority.
All Welsh county and county borough councils.
All eleven district councils.
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Do not know your council?
Enter your postcode on our homepage and we will identify your council automatically.
Find my bin day by postcodeCommon questions
Bin collection in the UK is run entirely by local councils. There is no national service. Each of the 382 councils publishes its own schedule and manages its own rounds. Two streets in the same postcode can be on different collection days.
Enter your postcode on the BinDays homepage. We use official ONS boundary data to identify the local authority responsible for your address and take you directly to its bin checker. You do not need to know your council name in advance.
The vast majority do. A small number of councils, mostly in rural Scotland and Northern Ireland, still use PDF calendars. Where that is the case, we link to the council page where the calendar can be downloaded.
Every council link has been verified by hand. We review them regularly and update any that have moved, because councils do change their website structures, especially after local authority mergers.