Rubbish
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Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
These are the containers used in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling
Authorised purple bags
Food waste
Garden Waste
Container details
The container pictures and words are Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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.
- Rubbish: Homes unsuitable for wheelie bins
- Recycling: Homes unsuitable for wheelie bins
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Rubbish and recycling bags for homes without wheelie binsBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
- What you can put in your recycling binBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
- Garden waste collectionsBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
- Food waste collectionsBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
- Recycling centres and tipsBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
- Get help putting your bins outBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
Missed-bin guidance checked 20 September 2026.
- 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council.
WriteToThem is an independent mySociety service. You'll enter your postcode there before choosing who to contact.
Complaint routes verified 7 September 2026.
How Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole compares
- Recycled or composted
- 44%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 487 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £41per household a year. Similar councils: £82
- Value for money
- 10 out of 10 An independently constructed WhenIsBins rating, not an official government rating.
Official figures for England, 2024 to 2025.
Local bins and recycling news
AI-generated summary, reviewed before publication. Checked 18 September 2026.
A September 2026 local report described seven weeks of missed food-waste collections at a retirement block using a communal bin in Tuckton. Residents said repeated complaints had brought little explanation and that overflowing bins were attracting flies and maggots. One disputed a council message saying the bin had been emptied. The Bournemouth Echo said the problem was resolved after it intervened, and noted that it had asked BCP Council for comment. Residents said other food-waste bins on their road had been collected and questioned why their communal bin had been missed.
- Tuckton retirement flat's food waste uncollected for seven weeks — www.bournemouthecho.co.uk