Chelmsford bin collection days
Find out when Chelmsford 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 Chelmsford bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Chelmsford
Chelmsford City Council collects:
- Black bin
- Card sack
- Green box
- Paper sack
- Plastics and cartons
- Food waste
- Brown bin
From the collections we've found for homes in Chelmsford. 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 Chelmsford 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 Chelmsford City Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Chelmsford, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.
Chelmsford City Council's website takes a while to check, so your first search can take up to 30 seconds. After that, your collection days appear straight away.
Areas covered
In Chelmsford, your bins are collected by Chelmsford City Council, not Essex County Council.
Chelmsford City Council collects household bins across its 24 wards in the East of England:
- Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield
- Boreham and The Leighs
- Broomfield and The Walthams
- Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park
- Chelmsford Rural West
- Galleywood
- Goat Hall
- Great Baddow East
- Great Baddow West
- Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon
- Marconi
- Moulsham Lodge
- Moulsham and Central
- Patching Hall
- Rettendon and Runwell
- South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting
- South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood
- South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville
- Springfield North
- St Andrews
- The Lawns
- Trinity
- Waterhouse Farm
- Writtle
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.