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Bracknell Forest 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 Bracknell Forest
These are the containers used in Bracknell Forest. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Blue recycling bin
Food
Container details
The container pictures and words are Bracknell Forest 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.
Container descriptions checked 19 September 2026; list of collections built from Bracknell Forest Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What goes in your recycling binBracknell Forest Council
- Garden waste collectionsBracknell Forest Council
- Food waste collectionsBracknell Forest Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemBracknell Forest Council
- Recycling centres and tipsBracknell Forest Council
- Get help putting your bins outBracknell Forest Council
Links checked 19 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Bracknell Forest 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 Bracknell Forest 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 Bracknell Forest Council.
WriteToThem is an independent mySociety service. You'll enter your postcode there before choosing who to contact.
Complaint routes verified 6 September 2026.
How Bracknell Forest compares
- Recycled or composted
- 54%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 419 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £64per household a year. Similar councils: £83
- 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.
Bracknell Forest postponed the start of kerbside glass collections from autumn 2026 to March 2027, saving £380,000 in its agreed budget. Houses are due to receive a 140-litre wheeled bin, emptied every four weeks, while flats will have communal bins emptied fortnightly. Bin deliveries to houses are planned for January and February 2027. The council says other waste collections will continue unchanged. Once the new service begins, at least half of existing glass recycling banks will be removed; the locations of those remaining have not yet been confirmed.
- Council agrees balanced budget to protect vital services | Bracknell ... — www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk
- Glass bin collection | Bracknell Forest Council — www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk