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Wakefield 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 Wakefield
These are the containers used in Wakefield. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Mixed recycling
Garden waste
Brown garden bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Wakefield City 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 Wakefield City Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- New or replacement bin request guidanceWakefield City Council
- Which bin does it go in?Wakefield City Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemWakefield City Council
- Recycling centres and tipsWakefield City Council
- Get help putting your bins outWakefield City Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Wakefield City 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.
- Make a complaint to Wakefield City 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 Wakefield City 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 Wakefield compares
- Recycled or composted
- 48%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 492 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £71per household a year. Similar councils: £75
- 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.
Wakefield Council said in an 8 April 2026 update that separate weekly household food-waste collections would wait until its existing waste contract ends, expected several years away. Residents were told to continue using their household rubbish bin for food, rather than the garden-waste bin.
The council says food is already recovered at its treatment facility and converted into renewable heat and electricity. Garden waste uses a different process to make soil improver. Separate food-waste rules cover workplaces with at least ten full-time employees from 31 March 2025; smaller workplaces join from 31 March 2027.
- Updates to food waste collections in the district — www.wakefield.gov.uk