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North Ayrshire bin collection dates

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  • Add your dates to Google, Apple or Outlook calendar
  • Get an email the evening before
  • Print an A4 sheet for the fridge

Bank holiday bin collections in North Ayrshire

Are bins collected on St Andrew’s Day?

St Andrew’s Day is Monday 30 November 2026, a Scottish bank holiday. A bank holiday does not automatically mean your bin day changes.

We have not verified a general bank-holiday collection rule for this council. Check the dates for your address rather than assuming collections move by a day.

Use the council’s Bin Collections portal to select your address. A downloaded calendar is a copy; check again for later changes.

Council collection information. Source reviewed 2 October 2026. Applies to: Household bin collections.

Check current council updates for any later disruption. Christmas and New Year collections may have separate arrangements.

Keep up with bin-day changes

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Get email reminders or a calendar

Enter your postcode above, choose your address, then choose email reminders or a calendar subscription on your results. Calendar apps can take a day or more to show updates; a one-off download will not update. Last-minute council changes may not reach us in time.

Christmas and New Year bin collections in North Ayrshire

We had not found North Ayrshire Council’s arrangements for Christmas 2026 and New Year 2027 when we checked on 10 November 2026. We check every week until Christmas; councils often publish in late November or December.

Check the council’s bins information.

Look up your address above for its dates. Christmas and New Year collections across the UK.

Missed bin or a problem

Bins in North Ayrshire

These are the containers used in North Ayrshire. Which ones a home has depends on its address.

  • General waste

    Grey bin

  • Blue Bin

  • Brown Bin

  • Purple Bin

Container details

The container pictures and words are North Ayrshire Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.

Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from North Ayrshire Council's own service names 22 September 2026.

Links checked 17 September 2026.

Missed bin or a problem

Tell North Ayrshire Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.

  1. Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
  2. Report another bin collection problemAnything else about the collection or your bins.
  3. Make a complaint to North Ayrshire 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 unitary authority councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my unitary authority councillors on North Ayrshire Council.

WriteToThem is an independent mySociety service. You'll enter your postcode there before choosing who to contact.

Complaint routes verified 6 September 2026.

Local bins and recycling news

AI-generated summary, reviewed before publication. Checked 18 September 2026.

North Ayrshire households continue with weekly grey, blue, purple and brown bin collections, with 53% of household waste was recycled in 2024, the ninth-best in Scotland and above the 44.3% national average, though below the council's 56% target.

Following 2024 budget savings, the council reduced collections of specialist hygiene bins (used for nappies, catheters and medical waste) from every two weeks to every three weeks. Parents' groups say bins are overflowing and smelling, and have complained repeatedly and contacted MSPs. The council says it remains one of only two Scottish authorities offering this service and is working to accommodate individual needs, though the reduced frequency itself has not been reversed.

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