Birmingham bin collection days
Find out when Birmingham City 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 Birmingham bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Birmingham
Birmingham City Council collects:
- Rubbish
- Mixed recycling
- Food
From the collections we've found for homes in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham City 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 Birmingham City Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Birmingham, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
Birmingham City Council collects household bins across its 69 wards in the West Midlands:
- Acocks Green
- Allens Cross
- Alum Rock
- Aston
- Balsall Heath West
- Bartley Green
- Billesley
- Birchfield
- Bordesley & Highgate
- Bordesley Green
- Bournbrook & Selly Park
- Bournville & Cotteridge
- Brandwood & King's Heath
- Bromford & Hodge Hill
- Castle Vale
- Druids Heath & Monyhull
- Edgbaston
- Erdington
- Frankley Great Park
- Garretts Green
- Glebe Farm & Tile Cross
- Gravelly Hill
- Hall Green North
- Hall Green South
- Handsworth
- Handsworth Wood
- Harborne
- Heartlands
- Highter's Heath
- Holyhead
- King's Norton North
- King's Norton South
- Kingstanding
- Ladywood
- Longbridge & West Heath
- Lozells
- Moseley
- Nechells
- Newtown
- North Edgbaston
- Northfield
- Oscott
- Perry Barr
- Perry Common
- Pype Hayes
- Quinton
- Rubery & Rednal
- Shard End
- Sheldon
- Small Heath
- Soho & Jewellery Quarter
- South Yardley
- Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East
- Sparkhill
- Stirchley
- Stockland Green
- Sutton Four Oaks
- Sutton Mere Green
- Sutton Reddicap
- Sutton Roughley
- Sutton Trinity
- Sutton Vesey
- Sutton Walmley & Minworth
- Sutton Wylde Green
- Tyseley & Hay Mills
- Ward End
- Weoley & Selly Oak
- Yardley East
- Yardley West & Stechford
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.