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Christmas and New Year bin collections in Sutton

Garden waste subscribers. The garden waste service takes a four-week break from Wednesday 6 January 2027 to Sunday 31 January 2027, and restarts on Monday 1 February 2027.

Council source. Checked 10 November 2026.

We had not found Sutton 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 Sutton

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

  • Non-Recyclable Refuse collection

  • Food waste

    Brown wheelie bin

  • Garden Waste collection

  • Paper and card

    Black wheelie bin with blue lid

  • Mixed Recycling collection

  • Paper & Card collection

Container details

The container pictures and words are Sutton 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.

  • Food waste: Communal properties with the food waste wheelie-bin service
  • Paper and card: Communal properties with the paper and card wheelie-bin service

Container descriptions checked 18 September 2026; list of collections built from Sutton Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.

Links checked 17 September 2026.

Missed bin or a problem

Tell Sutton 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 Sutton 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 borough councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my borough councillors on Sutton 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 Sutton compares

Recycled or composted
41%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
Rubbish not recycled
470 kgper household a year
Cost of collections
£57per household a year. Similar councils: £82
Value for money
10 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.

Sutton announced changes to some collection days from 29 September 2025, alongside separate vehicles for rubbish and recycling. The council said dedicated vehicles would reduce contamination and improve recycling quality. Food-waste collections remained weekly, with rubbish, recycling and subscribed garden waste fortnightly. It expected a 9% reduction in vehicle emissions through shorter journeys and newer vehicles. The announcement followed the start of a new Veolia service and a summer survey in which 86% of residents said they were satisfied with waste collections. Assisted collections were to continue unchanged.

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