Basildon bin collection days
Find out when Basildon Borough Council will collect your rubbish, recycling, food and garden waste.
Bin day reminders
After you find your collection days, you can add them to your calendar and get a reminder the evening before. How bin day reminders work
Christmas and New Year
Find out if Basildon bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Basildon
Basildon Borough Council collects:
- Black wheelie bin
- Blue bag
- Orange box
- Green caddy
- Green wheelie bin (Active)
- White bag
From the collections we've found for homes in Basildon. Your street may have a different mix of bins.
Many councils charge for garden waste collections, so they only show for homes that have signed up. Check Basildon Borough Council's website to find out about garden waste.
What you can recycle at home
Under the government's Simpler Recycling rules, councils in England collect these from homes:
- Paper and card: newspapers, magazines, envelopes and cardboard boxes
- Plastic: bottles, pots, tubs and trays
- Metal: drinks cans, food tins, clean foil and empty aerosols
- Glass: bottles and jars
- Cartons: food and drinks cartons, like juice and soup cartons
- Food waste: all food, cooked or raw, including peelings, bones, tea bags and coffee grounds, collected every week
Plastic bags and wrapping will be added by 31 March 2027. Some councils are still bringing in some of these collections.
Which bin each one goes in depends on your council. Check Basildon Borough Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Basildon, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
In Basildon, your bins are collected by Basildon Borough Council, not Essex County Council.
Basildon Borough Council collects household bins across its 14 wards in the East of England:
- Billericay East
- Billericay West
- Burstead
- Castledon & Crouch
- Fryerns
- Laindon Park
- Langdon Hills
- Lee Chapel North
- Nethermayne
- Pitsea North West
- Pitsea South East
- St Martin's
- Wickford North
- Wickford Park
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.