Food and garden waste
Wheelie bins for food and garden waste
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- Add your dates to Google, Apple or Outlook calendar
- Get an email the evening before
- Print an A4 sheet for the fridge
Bank holiday bin collections in Aberdeen
Are bins collected on St Andrew’s Day?
St Andrew’s Day is Monday 30 November 2026, a Scottish bank holiday. A bank holiday does not automatically mean your bin day changes.
We have not verified a general bank-holiday collection rule for this council. Check the dates for your address rather than assuming collections move by a day.
Use the council’s address search to check the collection scheduled for your home.
Council collection information. Source reviewed 2 October 2026. Applies to: Household bin collections.
Check current council updates for any later disruption. Christmas and New Year collections may have separate arrangements.
Keep up with bin-day changes
Sign up for free email reminders or add a calendar subscription after finding your address. WhenIsBins refreshes your collection dates from the council, including verified changes for bank holidays, Christmas and New Year.
Get email reminders or a calendar
Enter your postcode above, choose your address, then choose email reminders or a calendar subscription on your results. Calendar apps can take a day or more to show updates; a one-off download will not update. Last-minute council changes may not reach us in time.
Christmas and New Year bin collections in Aberdeen
We had not found Aberdeen City Council’s arrangements for Christmas 2026 and New Year 2027 when we checked on 10 November 2026. We check every week until Christmas; councils often publish in late November or December.
Check the council’s bins information.
Look up your address above for its dates. Christmas and New Year collections across the UK.
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.