Chesterfield bin collection days
Find out when Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Chesterfield
Chesterfield Borough Council collects:
- Domestic refuse
- Domestic recycling
- Domestic food
- Domestic paid garden
From the collections we've found for homes in Chesterfield. Your street may have a different mix of bins.
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 Chesterfield Borough Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Chesterfield, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
In Chesterfield, your bins are collected by Chesterfield Borough Council, not Derbyshire County Council.
Chesterfield Borough Council collects household bins across its 16 wards in the East Midlands:
- Brampton East & Boythorpe
- Brampton West & Loundsley Green
- Brimington North
- Brimington South
- Brockwell
- Dunston
- Hasland
- Linacre
- Rother
- Spire
- Staveley Central
- Staveley North
- Staveley South
- Walton
- Whittington
- Whittington Moor
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.