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Manchester 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 Manchester
These are the containers used in Manchester. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Green Bin
Blue paper and card bin
Brown Bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Manchester City Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Container descriptions checked 19 September 2026; list of collections built from Manchester City Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What goes in blue paper and card bins, bags and containersManchester City Council
- Replace a missing or stolen binManchester City Council
- When and where to put your bins outManchester City Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemManchester City Council
Links checked 19 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Manchester City Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
Missed-bin guidance checked 20 September 2026.
- Make a complaint to Manchester City 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 metropolitan district councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my metropolitan district councillors on Manchester City 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 Manchester compares
- Recycled or composted
- 39%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 395 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £76per household a year. Similar councils: £68
- Value for money
- 7 out of 10 Limited confidence. 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.
Manchester City Council announced 12 smaller waste trucks designed to reach narrow roads and heavily parked streets more easily. The vehicles form part of its Clean and Green Manchester campaign, which combines improvements to the service with encouragement to recycle and dispose of waste responsibly. Some trucks carry reminders about food recycling, litter bins and recycling plastic pots, tubs and trays. The council said the smaller design responds to growing traffic and parking pressures. The announcement also encouraged residents to check which items belong in each recycling bin, to help collections run efficiently.
- 12 new waste trucks launched to help access harder to reach streets — www.manchester.gov.uk