Hastings bin collection days
Find out when Hastings 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 Hastings bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Hastings
Hastings Borough Council collects:
- Rubbish
- Recycling
- Food waste
From the collections we've found for homes in Hastings. 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 Hastings Borough Council'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 Hastings Borough Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Hastings, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
In Hastings, your bins are collected by Hastings Borough Council, not East Sussex County Council.
Hastings Borough Council collects household bins across its 16 wards in the South East:
- Ashdown
- Baird
- Braybrooke
- Castle
- Central St Leonards
- Conquest
- Gensing
- Hollington
- Maze Hill
- Old Hastings
- Ore
- Silverhill
- St Helens
- Tressell
- West St Leonards
- Wishing Tree
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.