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Hounslow 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 Hounslow
These are the containers used in Hounslow. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Garden waste
Black wheelie bin
Recycling boxes
Container details
The container pictures and words are Hounslow 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.
Container descriptions checked 19 September 2026; list of collections built from Hounslow Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Order a new wheelie bin or recycling containerHounslow Borough Council
- What goes in your black wheelie binHounslow Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsHounslow Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsHounslow Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemHounslow Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsHounslow Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsHounslow Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Hounslow 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 Hounslow 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 borough councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my borough councillors on Hounslow 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 Hounslow compares
- Recycled or composted
- 37%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 531 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £111per household a year. Similar councils: £68
- 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.
Hounslow reported on 26 September 2025 that its refuse fleet had switched to hydrotreated vegetable oil, a fuel derived from used cooking oil. The council presented the change as delivery of a March 2025 pledge under its Climate Emergency Plan.
Councillor Shivraj Grewal linked it to investment in a cleaner, more modern fleet, with 50 new vehicles planned by 2028. The council said that investment should allow services to adapt to population growth and changing recycling demand. Councillor Katherine Dunne said cleaner fuel would help reduce emissions from council operations.
- Hounslow refuse fleet goes green — www.hounslow.gov.uk