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Nottingham 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 Nottingham
These are the containers used in Nottingham. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling
Brown recycling bin with grey lid
Garden
Container details
The container pictures and words are Nottingham City 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 Nottingham City Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Household waste collection and extra rubbish guidanceNottingham City Council
- Garden waste collectionsNottingham City Council
- Food waste collectionsNottingham City Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemNottingham City Council
- Recycling centres and tipsNottingham City Council
- Get help putting your bins outNottingham City Council
Links checked 19 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Nottingham City 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 Nottingham 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 unitary authority councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my unitary authority councillors on Nottingham 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 Nottingham compares
- Recycled or composted
- 25%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 566 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £63per household a year. Similar councils: £75
- Value for money
- 7 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.
A January 2026 BBC report said Nottingham’s citywide food-waste collections would not begin until 2030 because of an existing waste contract. Councillor Corall Jenkins said lessons from the trial included improving explanations, talking more with residents and showing why separating waste matters. The council said households in the original trial areas could still ask to participate.
Meanwhile, the council’s 2026 recycling guidance lists plastic bags and wrapping, cartons and foil among accepted materials. It asks residents to keep recycling clean, loose and dry. Food waste from the trial is sent to an anaerobic digestion plant to make biogas for electricity and heating.
- Food waste trial reduced over 'disappointing' uptake — www.bbc.co.uk
- Recycling in Nottingham — www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk