East Riding of Yorkshire bin collection days
Find out when East Riding of Yorkshire 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 East Riding of Yorkshire bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire Council collects:
- Green bin (General waste)
- Blue bin (Recycling)
- Brown bin (Garden waste)
From the collections we've found for homes in East Riding of Yorkshire. 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 East Riding of Yorkshire Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in East Riding of Yorkshire, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.
East Riding of Yorkshire 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
East Riding of Yorkshire Council collects household bins across its 26 wards in the Yorkshire and The Humber:
- Beverley Rural
- Bridlington Central and Old Town
- Bridlington North
- Bridlington South
- Cottingham North
- Cottingham South
- Dale
- Driffield and Rural
- East Wolds and Coastal
- Goole North
- Goole South
- Hessle
- Howden
- Howdenshire
- Mid Holderness
- Minster and Woodmansey
- North Holderness
- Pocklington Provincial
- Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland
- South East Holderness
- South Hunsley
- South West Holderness
- St Mary's
- Tranby
- Willerby and Kirk Ella
- Wolds Weighton
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.