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Solihull bin collection days

Find out when Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council will collect your rubbish, recycling, food and garden waste.

Use the postcode of your home in Solihull

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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

Christmas and New Year

Find out if Solihull bin collection days change over Christmas 2026

Bins in Solihull

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council collects:

  • Black bin
  • Domestic food caddy
  • Brown bin
  • Green bin

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

Many councils charge for garden waste collections, so they only show for homes that have signed up. Check Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council's website to find out about garden waste.

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 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.

What you'll need

To find your bin days in Solihull, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.

Areas covered

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council collects household bins across its 17 wards in the West Midlands:

  • Balsall & Berkswell
  • Blythe
  • Castle Bromwich
  • Chelmsley Wood
  • Dorridge & Hockley Heath
  • Elmdon
  • Fordbridge
  • Kingshurst & Smith's Wood
  • Knowle
  • Lyndon
  • Meriden & Arden
  • Olton
  • Shirley East & Sharmans Cross
  • Shirley South
  • Shirley West
  • Silhill
  • St Alphege with Monkspath & Hillfield

Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.

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