North Yorkshire bin collection days
Find out when North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire Council collects:
- Household waste
- Glass, cans, plastic and cartons
- Paper, card and cardboard
- Garden waste
From the collections we've found for homes in North Yorkshire. 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 North Yorkshire Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in North Yorkshire, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
North Yorkshire Council took over from these councils, which no longer exist:
- Craven District Council (until 2023): Skipton and Settle
- Hambleton District Council (until 2023): Northallerton, Thirsk and Bedale
- Harrogate Borough Council (until 2023): Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon
- Richmondshire District Council (until 2023): Richmond and Catterick
- Ryedale District Council (until 2023): Malton, Pickering and Helmsley
- Scarborough Borough Council (until 2023): Scarborough, Whitby and Filey
- Selby District Council (until 2023): Selby, Tadcaster and Sherburn in Elmet
North Yorkshire Council collects household bins across its 89 wards in the Yorkshire and The Humber:
- Aire Valley
- Aiskew & Leeming
- Amotherby & Ampleforth
- Appleton Roebuck & Church Fenton
- Barlby & Riccall
- Bedale
- Bentham & Ingleton
- Bilton & Nidd Gorge
- Bilton Grange & New Park
- Boroughbridge & Claro
- Brayton & Barlow
- Camblesforth & Carlton
- Castle
- Catterick Village & Brompton-on-Swale
- Cawood & Escrick
- Cayton
- Cliffe & North Duffield
- Coppice Valley & Duchy
- Danby & Mulgrave
- Derwent Valley & Moor
- Easingwold
- Eastfield
- Esk Valley & Coast
- Fairfax & Starbeck
- Falsgrave & Stepney
- Filey
- Glusburn, Cross Hills & Sutton-in-Craven
- Great Ayton
- Harlow & St. Georges
- Helmsley & Sinnington
- High Harrogate & Kingsley
- Hillside & Raskelf
- Hipswell & Colburn
- Huby & Tollerton
- Hunmanby & Sherburn
- Hutton Rudby & Osmotherley
- Killinghall, Hampsthwaite & Saltergate
- Kirkbymoorside & Dales
- Knaresborough East
- Knaresborough West
- Leyburn & Middleham
- Malton
- Masham & Fountains
- Mid Craven
- Monk Fryston & South Milford
- Morton-on-Swale & Appleton Wiske
- Newby
- North Richmondshire
- Northallerton North & Brompton
- Northallerton South
- Northstead
- Norton
- Oatlands & Pannal
- Osgoldcross
- Ouseburn
- Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale
- Pickering
- Richmond
- Ripon Minster & Moorside
- Ripon Ure Bank & Spa
- Romanby
- Scalby & the Coast
- Scotton & Lower Wensleydale
- Seamer
- Selby East
- Selby West
- Settle & Penyghent
- Sherburn in Elmet
- Sheriff Hutton & Derwent
- Skipton East & South
- Skipton North & Embsay-with-Eastby
- Skipton West & West Craven
- Sowerby & Topcliffe
- Spofforth with Lower Wharfedale & Tockwith
- Stokesley
- Stray, Woodlands & Hookstone
- Tadcaster
- Thirsk
- Thornton Dale & Wolds
- Thorpe Willoughby & Hambleton
- Upper Dales
- Valley Gardens & Central Harrogate
- Washburn & Birstwith
- Wathvale & Bishop Monkton
- Weaponness & Ramshill
- Wharfedale
- Whitby Streonshalh
- Whitby West
- Woodlands
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.