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Walsall 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 Walsall
These are the containers used in Walsall. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Green recycling bin
Garden waste
Brown garden waste bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Walsall Borough Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Walsall Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What goes in your binsWalsall Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsWalsall Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Walsall 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 Walsall 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 Walsall Borough Council.
WriteToThem is an independent mySociety service. You'll enter your postcode there before choosing who to contact.
Complaint routes verified 7 September 2026.
How Walsall compares
- Recycled or composted
- 32%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 647 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £75per household a year. Similar councils: £75
- Value for money
- 6 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.
Walsall’s September 2026 waste-policy proposals set out separate weekly food-waste collections from late summer 2027, alongside free collections of small electrical items and batteries. Consultation respondents had preferred mixing food and garden waste, but the council chose separate caddies because of cost, BirminghamLive reported.
The policy also proposed alternating fortnightly rubbish and recycling collections from June 2027. Garden-waste collections would remain free and extend by six weeks into December, adding three pickups. The report described these changes ahead of cabinet consideration on 16 September. Government funding would cover only part of the setup costs, leaving the council to fund extra vehicles, containers and depot improvements.
- Changes coming for Walsall bin collections including food, household and garden waste — www.birminghammail.co.uk