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Stafford 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 Stafford
These are the containers used in Stafford. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling
Garden waste
Brown bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Stafford 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 Stafford Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Food waste caddies, collection guidance and replacement linersStafford Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsStafford Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemStafford Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsStaffordshire County Council
- Get help putting your bins outStafford Borough Council
Links checked 18 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Stafford 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 Stafford 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 district councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my district councillors on Stafford 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 Stafford compares
- Recycled or composted
- 44%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 465 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £36per household a year. Similar councils: £67
- Value for money
- 9 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.
Stafford Borough’s food-waste service began on 13 April 2026 and collected more than 80 tonnes in its first few days, the council reported. Crews made extra Saturday collections because of the volume put out by residents.
Councillor Ian Fordham called it the borough’s biggest household-recycling change in over a decade, while acknowledging national competition for vehicles and containers. Around 60,000 properties received caddies and liners, with no additional charge for the equipment or service. The council scheduled communal-bin-store flats for a separate rollout from July 2026. Separate vehicles collect the food caddies at different times.
- Residents recycle 80 tonnes of food in first week of new ... — www.staffordbc.gov.uk
- Food Waste - new kerbside collection service — www.staffordbc.gov.uk