Maidstone bin collection days
Find out when Maidstone 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 Maidstone bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Maidstone
Maidstone Borough Council collects:
- General waste on tuesdays
- Recycling on tuesdays
- Food waste on tuesdays
- Garden waste on tuesdays
From the collections we've found for homes in Maidstone. 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 Maidstone Borough Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Maidstone, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.
Maidstone 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 Maidstone, your bins are collected by Maidstone Borough Council, not Kent County Council.
Maidstone Borough Council collects household bins across its 22 wards in the South East:
- Allington & Bridge
- Barming Heath & Teston
- Bearsted & Downswood
- Boughton Monchelsea & Chart Sutton
- Boxley Downs
- Coxheath & Farleigh
- Fant & Oakwood
- Grove Green & Vinters Park
- Harrietsham, Lenham & North Downs
- Headcorn & Sutton Valence
- High Street
- Leeds & Langley
- Loose & Linton
- Marden & Yalding
- Palace Wood
- Park Wood & Mangravet
- Penenden Heath
- Ringlestone
- Senacre
- Shepway
- Staplehurst
- Tovil
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.