Household waste collection

To ensure your waste is emptied on collection day you should leave your wheeled bin: 

• At the edge of your property, where it meets the nearest public pavement, on your fortnightly collection day
• Out the night beforehand, as collections may happen earlier in the morning than in the past

You might want to put your house name or number on your bin to help you keep track of it on collection day.

We won’t empty your rubbish bin if:

• There’s too much in it – the lid must be closed
• Any other rubbish left beside it in any other container

Fitting all your rubbish in the bin

If you’re struggling to fit all your rubbish in your wheeled bin, it may mean you aren’t recycling as much as you could.

• We’ve found more than half of what some residents in the rubbish in Wokingham Borough can and should be recycled. You can read our advice on recycling more.
• If you’re recycling all you can each week and using all the recycling services provided, you’ll find the amount of rubbish you produce shrinks dramatically.
• We know change can be hard, but this system is widely used elsewhere and residents of other boroughs have found they’re recycling much more as a result.

Using bin liners

You don’t have to use bin liners, but we recommend doing so.

• If you have any leftover blue bags, you can use them to bag up your rubbish and put them in your bin for collection.
• If you have no blue bags, you can buy bin liners from shops.