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East Staffordshire bin collection dates

Then choose your address. Dates come from East Staffordshire Borough Council'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

Missed bin or a problem

Bins in East Staffordshire

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

  • Grey Bin

  • Blue Bag

  • Blue Bin

  • Weekly Food Waste

  • Brown Bin

Container details

The container pictures and words are East Staffordshire Borough 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.

List of collections built from East Staffordshire Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.

Links checked 19 September 2026.

Missed bin or a problem

Tell East Staffordshire Borough Council 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 East Staffordshire Borough 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 district councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my district councillors on East Staffordshire Borough 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 East Staffordshire compares

Recycled or composted
44%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
Rubbish not recycled
458 kgper household a year
Cost of collections
£65per household a year. Similar councils: £51
Value for money
2 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.

East Staffordshire froze its garden-waste subscription at £40 for 2026, retaining the £35 early-renewal price, according to November 2025 reporting. Council leaders considered six pricing options before keeping the charge unchanged. The planned service comprised 23 fortnightly collections between late January and December 2026.

Almost 27,000 households had subscribed during 2025, exceeding the council’s original forecast. About 73% of subscribers had used the early-payment discount. Despite that uptake, the service was forecast to lose around £139,000. The council linked some of the fall in garden waste collected to the weather, rather than solely to charging.

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