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Solihull 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 Solihull
These are the containers used in Solihull. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Mixed Recycling
Garden waste
Green wheelie bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Solihull Borough Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Solihull Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What happens to my recycling and waste?Solihull Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsSolihull Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsSolihull Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemSolihull Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsSolihull Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outSolihull Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Solihull 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 Solihull 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 metropolitan district councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my metropolitan district councillors on Solihull 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 Solihull compares
- Recycled or composted
- 44%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 534 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £89per household a year. Similar councils: £80
- 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.
Solihull plans to begin weekly food-waste collections and switch rubbish collections from weekly to fortnightly on 5 October 2026. Caddy deliveries were scheduled across August and September for more than 78,000 households, with residents told to wait until October before using them.
The initial service covers houses and flats with their own bins or sacks; shared-bin flats are scheduled for 2027. The council says separating food should improve recycling, while existing recycling and subscribed garden-waste collections remain unchanged. Individual households receive a seven-litre kitchen caddy and a lockable 23-litre outdoor container.
- Changes to your rubbish collections — www.solihull.gov.uk
- /Food waste caddies to arrive on doorsteps from Monday 3 August — www.solihull.gov.uk