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Cumberland 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 Cumberland
These are the containers used in Cumberland. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Green Waste
or Glass, cans and plastic
Green recycling bin, or black recycling box
or or Paper and card
Blue-lidded wheelie bin, or green hessian sack, or blue-lidded bin
Glass, plastic and cans
Red-lidded bin
Glass, cans, tins, plastics and Tetra Paks
Container details
The container pictures and words are Cumberland 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.
- Glass, cans and plastic: Properties using a green bin rather than a black box
- Glass, cans and plastic: Allerdale area
- Glass, cans and plastic: Properties using a black box rather than a green bin
- Paper and card: Properties using a wheelie bin rather than a hessian sack
- Paper and card: Allerdale area
- Paper and card: Properties using a hessian sack rather than a wheelie bin
- Paper and card: Copeland area
- Glass, plastic and cans: Copeland area
Container descriptions checked 19 September 2026; list of collections built from Cumberland Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Replacement and damaged binsCumberland Council
- Recycling rules for Allerdale, Carlisle and CopelandCumberland Council
- Garden waste collectionsCumberland Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemCumberland Council
- Recycling centres and tipsCumberland Council
- Get help putting your bins outCumberland Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Cumberland Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
- Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
- Make a complaint to Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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.
Cumberland’s current service update sets out recycling changes planned for Carlisle from March 2027, with most properties receiving two recycling bins and some streets keeping boxes and bags. One bin would take paper and cardboard; the other glass, cans and plastics. It says affected households will be contacted in late 2026. At a January 2026 scrutiny meeting, councillors raised missed collections and problems with online reporting during the wider service changes. Officers acknowledged that improvements were needed. Councillor John Mallinson welcomed recycling bins but questioned storage space. Other members called for better communication and promotion of assisted collections.
- Changes to waste and recycling collections — www.cumberland.gov.uk
- Resident complains of not having bin emptied since November — www.newsandstar.co.uk
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