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City of London bin collection dates

Then choose your address. Dates come from City of London Corporation's own bin checker. We are not the council.

  • Add your dates to Google, Apple or Outlook calendar
  • Get an email the evening before
  • Print an A4 sheet for the fridge

Christmas and New Year bin collections in City of London

We had not found City of London Corporation’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.

Missed bin or a problem

Bins in City of London

These are the containers used in City of London. Which ones a home has depends on its address.

  • Mixed recycling

    Recycling bin, normally with a green lid

  • Food waste

    Green communal food waste bin

Container details

The container pictures and words are City of London Corporation's own. This may not be every container it uses.

  • Mixed recycling: Communal recycling bins in the car parks
  • Mixed recycling: Golden Lane Estate
  • Food waste: Communal food waste bins in the car parks
  • Food waste: Golden Lane Estate

Container descriptions checked 18 September 2026.

Links checked 17 September 2026.

Missed bin or a problem

Tell City of London Corporation first - it can only fix what it knows about.

  1. Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
  2. Make a complaint to City of London CorporationIf 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 borough councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my borough councillors on City of London Corporation.

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.

In guidance updated on 22 June 2026, the City of London Corporation states that food-waste collections cover all household properties. Residents are provided with a kitchen caddy and compostable liners.

Barbican, Golden Lane, Middlesex Street and Mansell Street estates have doorstep caddy collections; residents can also take food waste to their bin store. Most private blocks with bin stores use communal brown food bins. Street-collection properties have separate food-waste pickups on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 6–8pm. Where a bin store has no food bin, residents should check their arrangements with the council.

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