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Stockport 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 Stockport
These are the containers used in Stockport. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Black bin
Black wheelie bin
Blue bin or bag
Blue bin
or Brown bin or black box
Brown bin, or black box
Blue bin
Brown bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Stockport Borough Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
- Black bin: Homes with individual wheelie bins
- Blue bin or bag: Homes using a blue bin rather than a bag
- Brown bin or black box: Homes using a brown bin rather than a black box
- Brown bin or black box: Homes using a black box rather than a brown bin
- What you can put in your bins - Stockport Council
- What you can put in your bins - Stockport Council
- What you can put in your bins - Stockport Council
- What you can put in your bins - Stockport Council
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Stockport Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Order a recycling binStockport Borough Council
- What you can put in your binsStockport Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsStockport Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemStockport Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outStockport Borough Council
- Contact the waste serviceStockport Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Stockport 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.
- Report another bin collection problemAnything else about the collection or your bins.
- Make a complaint to Stockport 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 Stockport 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 Stockport compares
- Recycled or composted
- 60%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 294 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £52per household a year. Similar councils: £68
- Value for money
- 8 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.
Stockport plans to restore fortnightly paper-and-cardboard collections from December 2026, reversing the four-weekly blue-bin service introduced in 2025. The change followed complaints after stricter enforcement of closed-bin-lid rules left hundreds of bins uncollected without advance warning; the council apologised. Councillor Jake Austin said stronger-than-expected garden-waste subscription income helped make more frequent collections affordable. Opposition councillors welcomed the service improvement but questioned the funding and how quickly the decision was made. Austin defended responding to residents before Christmas and said other services would not be cut to pay for the change.
- Stockport council bin boss hits back at critics who say it's 'an absolute joke' — www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
- Stockport council accused of U-turn after plan to increase bin collections — www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk