North West Leicestershire bin collection days

Find out when North West Leicestershire District Council will collect your rubbish, recycling, food and garden waste.

This service is for homes only. Businesses usually arrange their own waste collection.

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

North West Leicestershire District Council collects:

From the collections we've found for homes in North West Leicestershire. Your street may have a different mix of bins.

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.

To find your bin days in North West Leicestershire, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.

In North West Leicestershire, your bins are collected by North West Leicestershire District Council, not Leicestershire County Council.

North West Leicestershire District Council collects household bins across its 38 wards in the East Midlands:

Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.