Cornwall bin collection days
Find out when Cornwall 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 Cornwall bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Cornwall
Cornwall Council collects:
- Rubbish bin
- Recycling bin
- Food bin
- Garden bin
From the collections we've found for homes in Cornwall. 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 Cornwall Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Cornwall, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
Cornwall Council collects household bins across its 87 wards in the South West:
- Altarnun & Stoke Climsland
- Bodmin St Mary's & St Leonard
- Bodmin St Petroc's
- Bude
- Callington & St Dominic
- Calstock
- Camborne Roskear & Tuckingmill
- Camborne Trelowarren
- Camborne West & Treswithian
- Camelford & Boscastle
- Constantine, Mabe & Mawnan
- Crowan, Sithney & Wendron
- Falmouth Arwenack
- Falmouth Boslowick
- Falmouth Penwerris
- Falmouth Trescobeas & Budock
- Feock & Kea
- Four Lanes, Beacon & Troon
- Fowey, Tywardreath & Par
- Gloweth, Malabar & Shortlanesend
- Gwinear-Gwithian & Hayle East
- Hayle West
- Helston North
- Helston South & Meneage
- Illogan & Portreath
- Land's End
- Lanivet, Blisland & Bodmin St Lawrence
- Lanner, Stithians & Gwennap
- Launceston North & North Petherwin
- Launceston South
- Liskeard Central
- Liskeard South & Dobwalls
- Long Rock, Marazion & St Erth
- Looe East & Deviock
- Looe West, Pelynt, Lansallos & Lanteglos
- Lostwithiel & Lanreath
- Ludgvan, Madron, Gulval & Heamoor
- Lynher
- Mevagissey & St Austell Bay
- Mousehole, Newlyn & St Buryan
- Mullion & St Keverne
- Mylor, Perranarworthal & Ponsanooth
- Newquay Central & Pentire
- Newquay Porth & Tretherras
- Newquay Trenance
- Padstow
- Penryn
- Penwithick & Boscoppa
- Penzance East
- Penzance Promenade
- Perranporth
- Pool & Tehidy
- Porthleven, Breage & Germoe
- Poundstock
- Probus & St Erme
- Rame Peninsula & St Germans
- Redruth Central, Carharrack & St Day
- Redruth North
- Redruth South
- Roche & Bugle
- Saltash Essa
- Saltash Tamar
- Saltash Trematon & Landrake
- St Agnes
- St Austell Bethel & Holmbush
- St Austell Central & Gover
- St Austell Poltair & Mount Charles
- St Blazey
- St Cleer & Menheniot
- St Columb Major, St Mawgan & St Wenn
- St Columb Minor & Colan
- St Dennis & St Enoder
- St Goran, Tregony & the Roseland
- St Ives East, Lelant & Carbis Bay
- St Ives West & Towednack
- St Mewan & Grampound
- St Newlyn East, Cubert & Goonhavern
- St Stephen-in-Brannel
- St Teath & Tintagel
- Stratton, Kilkhampton & Morwenstow
- Threemilestone & Chacewater
- Torpoint
- Truro Boscawen & Redannick
- Truro Moresk & Trehaverne
- Truro Tregolls
- Wadebridge East & St Minver
- Wadebridge West & St Mabyn
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.