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High Peak 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 High Peak
These are the containers used in High Peak. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Brown recycling bin
Food
Garden
Green-lidded bin
Green-lidded food and garden waste bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are High Peak Borough Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Container descriptions checked 19 September 2026; list of collections built from High Peak Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Request a larger or smaller binHigh Peak Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsHigh Peak Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsHigh Peak Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemHigh Peak Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsHigh Peak Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outHigh Peak Borough Council
- Contact the waste serviceHigh Peak Borough Council
Links checked 19 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell High Peak Borough Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
- Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
- Report another bin collection problemAnything else about the collection or your bins.
- Make a complaint to High Peak 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 High Peak Borough Council.
WriteToThem is an independent mySociety service. You'll enter your postcode there before choosing who to contact.
Complaint routes verified 7 September 2026.
How High Peak compares
- Recycled or composted
- 44%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 459 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £92per household a year. Similar councils: £68
- Value for money
- 3 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.
High Peak Council is opposing plans to close Glossop’s recycling centre, which is run by Derbyshire County Council. A September 2026 report described campaigner Colin Cram’s concern that consultation advice suggested some tip waste could go into household bins. High Peak said it would accept only its existing permitted waste, with other material treated as contamination and collections refused.
Separately, a June council announcement scheduled weekly food-waste collections and a £46 annual garden-waste subscription for mid-September. Residents would need to separate food from garden waste. The council also promised subsidised compost bins for people choosing not to subscribe.
- Tip campaigner warns of bin collection problems — www.notreallyheremedia.com
- Dates announced for changes to food and garden waste ... — www.highpeak.gov.uk