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Great Yarmouth 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 Great Yarmouth
These are the containers used in Great Yarmouth. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling bins
Garden waste
Brown bins
Container details
The container pictures and words are Great Yarmouth Borough Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Great Yarmouth Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- When and where to put your bins outGreat Yarmouth Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsGreat Yarmouth Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outGreat Yarmouth Borough Council
Links checked 20 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Great Yarmouth Borough Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
Missed-bin guidance checked 20 September 2026.
- Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
- Make a complaint to Great Yarmouth 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 Great Yarmouth 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 Great Yarmouth compares
- Recycled or composted
- 32%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 512 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £46per household a year. Similar councils: £56
- Value for money
- 7 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.
Great Yarmouth faced further waste-service strikes in August 2026 as a pay dispute continued despite an improved offer. Around 100 employees were involved, including bin collectors, street cleaners, landscaping staff and grave diggers. Unite argued that staff earned less than people doing comparable jobs in neighbouring areas. The council said it was seeking a settlement and limiting disruption.
Recycling and garden-waste collections were expected to be affected; the council said garden subscriptions would be extended to cover missed service. Separately, September reporting said the borough expected its new food-waste collection service to start in 2027.
- Bin and street cleaning strikes to continue in Yarmouth — www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk
- New delay for food waste bin collections in South Norfolk district — www.bbc.co.uk
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