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Lambeth 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 Lambeth
These are the containers used in Lambeth. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Green recycling bin
Green recycling wheelie bin
Brown bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Lambeth Borough Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Container descriptions checked 19 September 2026; list of collections built from Lambeth Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Managing your bins and preventing smellsLambeth Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsLambeth Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsLambeth Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemLambeth Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsLambeth Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outLambeth Borough Council
Links checked 19 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Lambeth 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.
- Report another bin collection problemAnything else about the collection or your bins.
- Make a complaint to Lambeth 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 Lambeth 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 Lambeth compares
- Recycled or composted
- 33%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 303 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £71per household a year. Similar councils: £73
- Value for money
- 10 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.
Lambeth’s street-bin replacement programme is intended to make recycling easier in its town centres. The council’s announcement said new bins had been installed in Brixton, with Clapham next and further work planned in Stockwell, Streatham and West Norwood. It said the bins would be emptied just as often and that the replacement programme would cost the council no extra money. Deputy leader Ciara Alleyne thanked residents for their patience during the work and said local organisations had helped shape the project. The changes concern public street bins, rather than residents’ household containers.