Household rubbish
Black household rubbish bin
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Westminster 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 Westminster
These are the containers used in Westminster. Which ones a home has depends on its address.
Mixed recycling
Blue mixed recycling bin
Container details
The container pictures and words are Westminster City Council's own. This may not be every container it uses.
- Household rubbish: Suitable residential properties provided with the new rubbish bins
- Household rubbish: Regent’s Park, Abbey Road, Little Venice, Queen’s Park, Harrow Road, Westbourne and Maida Vale wards
- Mixed recycling: Suitable residential properties provided with the new mixed recycling bins
- Mixed recycling: Regent’s Park, Abbey Road, Little Venice, Queen’s Park, Harrow Road, Westbourne and Maida Vale wards
Container descriptions checked 19 September 2026; list of collections built from Westminster City Council's own service names 22 September 2026.
Order, book and apply
- Recycling at homeWestminster City Council
- New recycling and rubbish bins in the participating wardsWestminster City Council
- Garden waste collectionsWestminster City Council
- Get rid of a bulky itemWestminster City Council
- Recycling centres and tipsWestminster City Council
Links checked 17 September 2026.
Missed bin or a problem
Tell Westminster City 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 Westminster 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 borough councillors can take up a repeated problem or a wider service failure. Find and write to my borough councillors on Westminster 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 Westminster compares
- Recycled or composted
- 24%of household waste, 2024 to 2025
- Rubbish not recycled
- 489 kgper household a year
- Cost of collections
- £142per household a year. Similar councils: £82
- Value for money
- 1 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.
Westminster’s planned depot for electric rubbish trucks faces a substantially higher bill, prompting a dispute over how the project was managed. An August 2026 report put the forecast cost above £13.5 million, compared with an early £6.6 million estimate. Conservative leader Paul Swaddle blamed inadequate checks by the previous Labour administration. Labour’s Ellie Ormsby said the estimate was provisional and later surveys uncovered unexpected foundation and drainage problems. The Mandela Way site in Southwark is intended to charge around 40 refuse vehicles and must be ready by September 2027 for Westminster’s next waste contract.
- Westminster Council waste depot to cost nearly £7mn more than ... — fitzrovianews.com