Oadby and Wigston bin collection days
Find out when Oadby and Wigston 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 Oadby and Wigston bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Oadby and Wigston
Oadby and Wigston Borough Council collects:
- Refuse
- Recycling
- Food waste
- Garden waste
From the collections we've found for homes in Oadby and Wigston. 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 Oadby and Wigston Borough Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Oadby and Wigston, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
In Oadby and Wigston, your bins are collected by Oadby and Wigston Borough Council, not Leicestershire County Council.
Oadby and Wigston Borough Council collects household bins across its 10 wards in the East Midlands:
- Oadby Brocks Hill
- Oadby Grange
- Oadby St Peter's
- Oadby Uplands
- Oadby Woodlands
- South Wigston
- Wigston All Saints
- Wigston Fields
- Wigston Meadowcourt
- Wigston St Wolstan's
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.