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Wandsworth 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 Wandsworth
These are the containers used in Wandsworth. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
or Recycling
Clear recycling sacks, or orange-lidded communal recycling container
Food waste
Small electrical items
Container details
The container pictures and words are Wandsworth 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.
- Recycling: Homes whose rubbish is collected in ordinary dustbins or refuse sacks
- Recycling: Not Homes using large communal wheeled bins
- Recycling: Homes using communal bins
Container descriptions checked 17 September 2026; list of collections built from Wandsworth Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Order recycling sacksWandsworth Borough Council
- Food waste recycling for private blocks of flatsWandsworth Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsWandsworth Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsWandsworth Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemWandsworth Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsWandsworth Borough Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Wandsworth Borough 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 Wandsworth 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 Wandsworth 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 Wandsworth compares
- Recycled or composted
- 28%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 428 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £67per household a year. Similar councils: £73
- Value for money
- 9 out of 10 Limited confidence. 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.
Wandsworth reported more than 9,000 tonnes of additional recycling since June 2024 in a February 2026 update, with food collections accounting for over half the increase. The council said the service had expanded to almost all flats and pledged to keep weekly rubbish and recycling collections. An April report by Putney.news put the 2024/25 recycling rate at 27.9%, up 5.1 percentage points but still below London’s average. It questioned the council’s presentation of a “25% improvement”, distinguishing extra material collected from the recycling rate. The debate centres on how progress is measured as food-waste access expands.