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Shropshire 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 Shropshire
These are the containers used in Shropshire. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling Collection
Paper and card
Container details
The container pictures and words are Shropshire 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 Shropshire Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Garden waste collectionsShropshire Council
- Food waste collectionsShropshire Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemShropshire Council
- Get help putting your bins outShropshire Council
Links checked 20 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Shropshire 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 Shropshire 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 Shropshire 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 Shropshire compares
- Recycled or composted
- 51%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 511 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £91per household a year. Similar councils: £82
- Value for money
- 5 out of 10 Limited confidence. 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.
Shropshire Council expanded home recycling on 13 April 2026, allowing food and drink cartons in purple-lidded bins or recycling boxes. The change covers milk and plant-based drink cartons, juice, soup, stock and sauce cartons. Residents should empty them and put them loose in the container, rather than inside bags.
Cabinet member David Vasmer said making carton recycling easier would help reduce waste and protect the environment. Cartons can also still be taken to the council’s five household recycling centres. Existing collections for plastic bottles, tubs, trays, tins, cans and glass bottles and jars continue.
- Food and liquid cartons to be collected in recycling bins — newsroom.shropshire.gov.uk