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East Lothian bin collection dates

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  • Print an A4 sheet for the fridge

Bank holiday bin collections in East Lothian

Are bins collected on St Andrew’s Day?

St Andrew’s Day is Monday 30 November 2026, a Scottish bank holiday. A bank holiday does not automatically mean your bin day changes.

We have not verified a general bank-holiday collection rule for this council. Check the dates for your address rather than assuming collections move by a day.

Use the council’s current bin collection checker and any service notices for your address.

Council collection information. Source reviewed 2 October 2026. Applies to: Household bin collections.

Check current council updates for any later disruption. Christmas and New Year collections may have separate arrangements.

Keep up with bin-day changes

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Get email reminders or a calendar

Enter your postcode above, choose your address, then choose email reminders or a calendar subscription on your results. Calendar apps can take a day or more to show updates; a one-off download will not update. Last-minute council changes may not reach us in time.

Christmas and New Year bin collections in East Lothian

We had not found East Lothian Council’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 East Lothian

These are the containers used in East Lothian. Which ones a home has depends on its address.

  • Non recyclable waste

  • Food waste and recycling

  • Garden waste

    Brown bin

Container details

The container pictures and words are East Lothian 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 17 September 2026; list of collections built from East Lothian Council's own service names 22 September 2026.

Links checked 17 September 2026.

Missed bin or a problem

Tell East Lothian Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.

Missed-bin guidance checked 20 September 2026.

  1. Make a complaint to East Lothian 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 East Lothian 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.

East Lothian increased its optional garden-waste permit from £35 to £40 for 2026/27, citing reduced budgets and rising costs. The council’s May announcement said permit holders would receive fortnightly collections from 31 August 2026 to 27 August 2027, while garden-waste disposal at recycling centres remained free. Separately, on 4 June 2026 the council reported suspension of wood and laminate recycling at Dunbar, Kinwegar and North Berwick because contractors were reaching storage capacity. It apologised and said it could not give a restoration date. That report does not establish whether the disruption continues now.

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