General waste
Brown bin
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St Helens 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 St Helens
These are the containers used in St Helens. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
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.
- Order a bin & recycling containers - St Helens Borough Council
- Black box - St Helens Borough Council
- White bag - St Helens Borough Council
Container descriptions checked 18 September 2026; list of collections built from St Helens Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Order a bin & recycling containersSt Helens Borough Council
- How to follow up a recycling container orderSt Helens Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsSt Helens Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsSt Helens Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemSt Helens Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsSt Helens Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outSt Helens Borough Council
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.
- Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
- 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.