New Forest bin collection days
Find out when New Forest District 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 New Forest bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in New Forest
New Forest District Council collects:
- General 180L
- Glass box
- Recycle 240L
- Garden 240L
From the collections we've found for homes in New Forest. 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 New Forest District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in New Forest, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
New Forest District 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 New Forest, your bins are collected by New Forest District Council, not Hampshire County Council.
New Forest District Council collects household bins across its 26 wards in the South East:
- Ashley, Bashley & Fernhill
- Ashurst, Bramshaw, Copythorne & Netley Marsh
- Ballard
- Barton & Becton
- Bransgore, Burley, Sopley & Ringwood East
- Brockenhurst & Denny Lodge
- Dibden & Dibden Purlieu
- Downlands & Forest North
- Fawley, Blackfield, Calshot & Langley
- Fordingbridge, Godshill & Hyde
- Forest & Solent
- Hardley, Holbury & North Blackfield
- Hythe Central
- Hythe South
- Lymington
- Lyndhurst & Minstead
- Marchwood & Eling
- Milford & Hordle
- Milton
- Pennington
- Ringwood North & Ellingham
- Ringwood South
- Sway
- Totton Central
- Totton North
- Totton South
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.