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Tameside 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 Tameside
These are the containers used in Tameside. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Mixed recycling
Food and garden waste
Paper and cardboard
Blue bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Tameside 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 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Tameside Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Refuse and Recycling UpdateTameside Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemTameside Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsTameside Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Tameside Borough Council first - it can only fix what it knows about.
- Report a missed binA bin that wasn't emptied on the day.
- Make a complaint to Tameside 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 Tameside 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 Tameside compares
- Recycled or composted
- 48%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 358 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £66per 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.
Tameside set out plans for more bin crews, four extra wagons and better route-planning technology after acknowledging unreliable collections in a January 2025 report. It said rounds often ran late, with food-and-garden collections sometimes cancelled so crews could catch up elsewhere. A service review found rounds larger than those in comparable councils and identified a need for more vehicles and staff. Councillor Laura Boyle said investment would help crews finish rounds and improve communication and safety, while warning that changes would take time. The report proposed buying the four vehicles in the 2026/27 budget.
- Report to: — tameside.moderngov.co.uk
- Huge plan to make bin collections in Tameside more reliable — www.notreallyheremedia.com