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St Helens bin collection dates

Then choose your address. Dates come from St Helens Borough Council's own bin checker. We are not the council.

  • Add your dates to Google, Apple or Outlook calendar
  • Get an email the evening before
  • Print an A4 sheet for the fridge

Christmas and New Year bin collections in St Helens

We had not found St Helens Borough Council’s arrangements for Christmas 2026 and New Year 2027 when we checked on 10 November 2026. We check every week until Christmas; councils often publish in late November or December.

Check the council’s bins information.

Look up your address above for its dates. Christmas and New Year collections across the UK.

Missed bin or a problem

Bins in St Helens

These are the containers used in St Helens. Which ones a home has depends on its address.

  • General waste

    Brown bin

  • Recycling

  • Black box

    Black box for glass bottles and jars

  • White bag

    White bag for plastic bottles

Container details

The container pictures and words are St Helens 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 18 September 2026; list of collections built from St Helens Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.

Links checked 17 September 2026.

Missed bin or a problem

Tell St Helens Borough Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.

Missed-bin guidance checked 20 September 2026.

  1. Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
  2. Make a complaint to St Helens 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 St Helens 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 St Helens compares

Recycled or composted
32%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
Rubbish not recycled
506 kgper household a year
Cost of collections
£88per household a year. Similar councils: £65
Value for money
1 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.

St Helens launched a month-long foil-recycling campaign in September 2026.

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