Household plastics and metal packaging
Reusable white sack
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West Devon 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 West Devon
These are the containers used in West Devon. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Recycling and Food Collection Service
Container details
The container pictures and words are West Devon 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 West Devon Borough Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- What goes in your recycling boxes and sackWest Devon Borough Council
- Garden waste collectionsWest Devon Borough Council
- Food waste collectionsWest Devon Borough Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemWest Devon Borough Council
- Recycling centres and tipsWest Devon Borough Council
- Get help putting your bins outWest Devon Borough Council
Links checked 19 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell West Devon 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 West Devon 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 West Devon 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 West Devon compares
- Recycled or composted
- 54%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 299 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £101per household a year. Similar councils: £68
- Value for money
- 5 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.
West Devon’s garden-waste subscription costs £70 for 2026/27, covering fortnightly collections from April 2026 to March 2027. Each subscription provides four reusable sacks, emptied on the recycling collection day in the opposite week to black-bag rubbish. Councillor Jeff Moody described the charge as good value, saying doorstep collections saved residents time and produced compost used by local farmers. Existing subscribers could keep their sacks when renewing, while new customers would have sacks delivered. The service accepts grass cuttings, hedge trimmings, small branches, weeds and flowers. The council directed residents to its garden-waste webpage to subscribe.
- Time to renew garden waste subscriptions in West Devon — www.creditoncourier.co.uk