Eastleigh bin collection days
Find out when Eastleigh 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 Eastleigh bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Eastleigh
Eastleigh Borough Council collects:
- Household waste bin
- Glass box and batteries
- Recycling bin
- Food waste bin
- Garden waste bin
From the collections we've found for homes in Eastleigh. 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 Eastleigh Borough Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Eastleigh, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Eastleigh Borough 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
In Eastleigh, your bins are collected by Eastleigh Borough Council, not Hampshire County Council.
Eastleigh Borough Council collects household bins across its 14 wards in the South East:
- Bishopstoke
- Botley
- Bursledon & Hound North
- Chandler's Ford
- Eastleigh Central
- Eastleigh North
- Eastleigh South
- Fair Oak & Horton Heath
- Hamble & Netley
- Hedge End North
- Hedge End South
- Hiltingbury
- West End North
- West End South
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.