Black household waste bin
Black household waste wheeled bin
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Test Valley 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 Test Valley
These are the containers used in Test Valley. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Brown recycling bin
Food Waste
Garden Waste
Container details
The container pictures and words are Test Valley 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 19 September 2026; list of collections built from Test Valley Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What You Can and Cannot Recycle with Test ValleyTest Valley Borough Council
- Extra household waste and recycling bin capacityTest Valley Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsTest Valley Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsTest Valley Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemTest Valley Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsTest Valley Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outTest Valley Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Test Valley 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 Test Valley 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 Test Valley 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 Test Valley compares
- Recycled or composted
- 38%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 472 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £33per household a year. Similar councils: £67
- 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.
Test Valley says it introduced weekly food-waste collections five months before the April 2026 deadline, using a new fleet of specialist vehicles. Most households now use a 23-litre kerbside caddy, while residents who already share bins in flats or other accommodation have been given shared wheeled containers.
The council also provided a small kitchen caddy to every household. It says the collected food goes to an anaerobic digestion facility, where the resulting biogas produces heat and electricity and the remaining material becomes fertiliser. The smaller kitchen caddy holds five litres and is intended for collecting scraps indoors.
- Food Waste Collection Service, Test Valley Borough Council — testvalley.gov.uk