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Oadby and Wigston bin collection dates
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- Get an email the evening before
- Print an A4 sheet for the fridge
Bins in Oadby and Wigston
These are the containers used in Oadby and Wigston. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling
Brown-lidded bin
Food waste
Garden waste
Container details
The container pictures and words are Oadby and Wigston 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; list of collections built from Oadby and Wigston Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Recycling Collection (Brown-Lidded Bin)Oadby and Wigston Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsOadby and Wigston Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsOadby and Wigston Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemOadby and Wigston Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outOadby and Wigston Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemOadby and Wigston Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Oadby and Wigston 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 Oadby and Wigston 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 Oadby and Wigston Borough Council.
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Complaint routes verified 6 September 2026.
How Oadby and Wigston compares
- Recycled or composted
- 41%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 399 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £43per household a year. Similar councils: £57
- 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.
A weekly food waste collection was required nationally from March 2026 under new recycling rules, and a Leicestershire County Council scrutiny report listed Oadby and Wigston as one of the first local rollouts, alongside Blaby and Hinckley and Bosworth councils, though the borough's own collection page had not been updated to confirm this.
Oadby and Wigston Borough Council operates an alternate-weekly bin system, introduced in September 2024: general waste one week, recycling the next, collected on the same weekday each time. Each household gets one 140-litre black bin as standard; a larger 240-litre bin costs £38 to swap. Bins with open lids or side waste won't be emptied.
- Waste Collection – Oadby and Wigston Borough Council — www.oadby-wigston.gov.uk
- Food Waste Scrutiny Report – Leicestershire County Council — democracy.leics.gov.uk