Food and garden waste
Wheelie bins for food and garden waste
All councils
Aberdeen bin collection dates
- Add your dates to Google, Apple or Outlook calendar
- Get an email the evening before
- Print an A4 sheet for the fridge
Bins in Aberdeen
These are the containers used in Aberdeen. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Container details
The container pictures and words are Aberdeen City Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What goes in my mixed recycling bin?Aberdeen City Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemAberdeen City Council
- Get help putting your bins outAberdeen City Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Aberdeen City Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
- Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
- Make a complaint to Aberdeen City CouncilIf reporting it didn't fix it.
Complaint didn't work either? Ask your councillors
If you've already reported the problem and used the council's complaints process, your unitary authority councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my unitary authority councillors on Aberdeen City Council.
WriteToThem is an independent mySociety service. You'll enter your postcode there before choosing who to contact.
Complaint routes verified 6 September 2026.
Local bins and recycling news
AI-generated summary, reviewed before publication. Checked 18 September 2026.
Diverting rubbish during Aberdeen’s incinerator closure in summer 2025 cost £370,745 in transport to landfill, BBC reporting revealed in February 2026. More than 20,000 tonnes went to a site near Peterhead. The East Tullos plant serves Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray, processing waste that cannot be recycled. Its designed capacity is 150,000 tonnes of waste a year. It reopened in August before another shutdown in December following a contract termination. The February report said operations had resumed in January under Suez, the new operator. The transport figure came from Aberdeen City Council’s response to a freedom-of-information request.