Isle of Wight bin collection days
Find out when Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
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 Isle of Wight Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Isle of Wight, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.
Isle of Wight 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
Isle of Wight Council collects household bins across its 39 wards in the South East:
- Bembridge
- Binstead & Fishbourne
- Brading & St Helens
- Brighstone, Calbourne & Shalfleet
- Carisbrooke & Gunville
- Central Rural
- Chale, Niton & Shorwell
- Cowes Medina
- Cowes North
- Cowes South & Northwood
- Cowes West & Gurnard
- East Cowes
- Fairlee & Whippingham
- Freshwater North & Yarmouth
- Freshwater South
- Haylands & Swanmore
- Lake North
- Lake South
- Mountjoy & Shide
- Nettlestone & Seaview
- Newchurch, Havenstreet & Ashey
- Newport Central
- Newport West
- Osborne
- Pan & Barton
- Parkhurst & Hunnyhill
- Ryde Appley & Elmfield
- Ryde Monktonmead
- Ryde North West
- Ryde South East
- Ryde West
- Sandown North
- Sandown South
- Shanklin Central
- Shanklin South
- Totland & Colwell
- Ventnor & St Lawrence
- Wootton Bridge
- Wroxall, Lowtherville & Bonchurch
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.