Dorset bin collection days

Find out when Dorset Council will collect your rubbish, recycling, food and garden waste.

This service is for homes only. Businesses usually arrange their own waste collection.

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

Dorset Council collects:

From the collections we've found for homes in Dorset. Your street may have a different mix of bins.

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 Dorset Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.

To find your bin days in Dorset, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.

Dorset Council took over from these councils, which no longer exist:

East Dorset District Council (until 2019): Ferndown, Wimborne Minster and Verwood
North Dorset District Council (until 2019): Blandford Forum, Gillingham, Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton
Purbeck District Council (until 2019): Swanage and Wareham
West Dorset District Council (until 2019): Dorchester, Bridport, Lyme Regis and Sherborne
Weymouth and Portland Borough Council (until 2019): Weymouth and Portland

Dorset Council collects household bins across its 52 wards in the South West:

Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.