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Melton 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 Melton
These are the containers used in Melton. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Container details
The container pictures and words are Melton 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 17 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Refuse and recycling sacks: supply arrangementsMelton Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsMelton Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsMelton Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemMelton Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outMelton Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemMelton Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Melton 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 Melton 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 Melton 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 Melton compares
- Recycled or composted
- 40%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 503 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £47per household a year. Similar councils: £69
- 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.
Melton residents face a wait until April 2028 for separate food-waste collections under the council’s revised target. In February 2026, then-leader Pip Allnatt told councillors that insufficient government funding made the earlier timetable financially unsafe. He said proceeding would exhaust reserves by 2028/29 and put other services at risk, despite the council already allocating extra money for vehicles and caddies. The council planned to defer those deliveries and seek government support for its delay. Its current guidance still anticipates April 2028 and tells residents to use the black rubbish bin for food they cannot compost, not recycling or garden bins.
- Food waste update February 2026 — www.melton.gov.uk
- Food waste — www.melton.gov.uk