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Redbridge 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 Redbridge
These are the containers used in Redbridge. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling
Garden Waste
Container details
The container pictures and words are Redbridge 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.
List of collections built from Redbridge Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Replacement binRedbridge Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsRedbridge Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsRedbridge Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemRedbridge Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsRedbridge Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Redbridge Borough Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
Missed-bin guidance checked 20 September 2026.
- 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 Redbridge 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 borough councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my borough councillors on Redbridge 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 Redbridge compares
- Recycled or composted
- 31%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 636 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £79per household a year. Similar councils: £68
- Value for money
- 4 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.
Redbridge scheduled another 3,000 homes to join weekly food-waste collections from 14 September 2026, expanding the first phase that began with around 10,000 houses in November 2025. Other households were promised information in October, with flats joining later phases. The council says shortages of specialist vehicles and containers have slowed expansion. Separately, houses on Eastern Avenue and Woodford Avenue switched to fortnightly recycling-bin collections in December 2025 following a serious crew-safety incident. Their rubbish remains weekly. A wider recycling-bin rollout is planned from 2027, so collection arrangements continue to vary across the borough.
- Food waste collection - Redbridge Council — www.redbridge.gov.uk
- Waste collection changes - Redbridge Council — www.redbridge.gov.uk