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Argyll and Bute 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 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.
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.
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