Croydon bin collection days
Find out when London Borough of Croydon 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 Croydon bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Croydon
London Borough of Croydon collects:
- General rubbish
- Glass, plastics, cans and cartons recycling
- Paper and card recycling
- Food waste
From the collections we've found for homes in Croydon. 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 London Borough of Croydon'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 London Borough of Croydon's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Croydon, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.
London Borough of Croydon'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
London Borough of Croydon collects household bins across its 28 wards in London:
- Addiscombe East
- Addiscombe West
- Bensham Manor
- Broad Green
- Coulsdon Town
- Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood
- Fairfield
- Kenley
- New Addington North
- New Addington South
- Norbury & Pollards Hill
- Norbury Park
- Old Coulsdon
- Park Hill & Whitgift
- Purley & Woodcote
- Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown
- Sanderstead
- Selhurst
- Selsdon & Addington Village
- Selsdon Vale & Forestdale
- Shirley North
- Shirley South
- South Croydon
- South Norwood
- Thornton Heath
- Waddon
- West Thornton
- Woodside
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.