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Bank holiday bin collections in Argyll and Bute
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.
The council publishes different collection arrangements by area and island. Use the calendar for your own 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.
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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 Argyll and Bute
We had not found Argyll and Bute 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 Argyll and Bute
These are the containers used in Argyll and Bute. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Mixed recycling
Blue bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Argyll and Bute Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Greyed-out bin icons are placeholders where the container type or colour is not confirmed.
- Mixed recycling: Homes using blue recycling bins
- Mixed recycling: Not Colonsay and streets in Campbeltown using recycling bags instead
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Argyll and Bute Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What goes in your blue binArgyll and Bute Council
- Food waste bin guidance for Helensburgh and LomondArgyll and Bute Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemArgyll and Bute Council
- Recycling centres and tipsArgyll and Bute Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Argyll and Bute Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
- Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
- Report another bin collection problemAnything else about the collection or your bins.
- Make a complaint to Argyll and Bute 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 Argyll and Bute Council.
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Complaint routes verified 6 September 2026.
Local bins and recycling news
AI-generated summary, reviewed before publication. Checked 18 September 2026.
Argyll and Bute reported further waste-service disruption in early September 2026, with vehicle breakdowns affecting recycling and household glass collections around Helensburgh. Some missed recycling rounds in Helensburgh and Lomond from the previous week were cancelled until the next scheduled collection.
The council apologised and published different instructions for affected routes, rather than a single catch-up arrangement. In Cardross, it cancelled a missed recycling round but announced a replacement general-waste collection for 11 September. Its service-status page lists these local changes separately so residents can check their area. Commercial glass collections, a separate service, resumed on 10 September.
- Latest service status — www.argyll-bute.gov.uk