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Sheffield 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 Sheffield
These are the containers used in Sheffield. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Blue bin
Blue bin for paper and card
Brown bin
Brown bin for glass, cans, plastics and cartons
Container details
The container pictures and words are Sheffield 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.
- Blue bin: Houses
- Brown bin: Houses
- What goes in your bins and collections: flats | Sheffield City Council
- What goes in your bins and collections: houses | Sheffield City Council
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Sheffield City Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Request a new or replacement binSheffield City Council
- Shared bins and recycling for flatsSheffield City Council
- Garden waste collectionsSheffield City Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemSheffield City Council
- Recycling centres and tipsSheffield City Council
- Get help putting your bins outSheffield City Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Sheffield 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 Sheffield 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 metropolitan district councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my metropolitan district councillors on Sheffield 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 Sheffield compares
- Recycled or composted
- 31%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 487 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £75per household a year. Similar councils: £76
- Value for money
- 6 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 23 September 2026.
A report published on 15 September 2026 described a funding decision scheduled for 21 September. Separately, the council announced on 13 July that larger blue-bin deliveries had begun and would continue through the year. This summary does not confirm the later funding decision.