Somerset bin collection days
Find out when Somerset 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 Somerset bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Somerset
Somerset Council collects:
- Rubbish
- Food recycling
- Recycling
From the collections we've found for homes in Somerset. 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 Somerset 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 Somerset Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Somerset, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.
Somerset 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
Somerset Council took over from these councils, which no longer exist:
- Mendip District Council (until 2023): Frome, Wells, Shepton Mallet, Glastonbury and Street
- Sedgemoor District Council (until 2023): Bridgwater and Burnham-on-Sea
- Somerset West and Taunton Council (until 2023): Taunton, Minehead and Wellington
- South Somerset District Council (until 2023): Yeovil, Chard, Crewkerne and Wincanton
Somerset Council collects household bins across its 55 wards in the South West:
- Bishop's Hull & Taunton West
- Blackdown & Neroche
- Blackmoor Vale
- Brent
- Bridgwater East & Bawdrip
- Bridgwater North & Central
- Bridgwater South
- Bridgwater West
- Brympton
- Burnham on Sea North
- Cannington
- Castle Cary
- Chard North
- Chard South
- Cheddar
- Coker
- Comeytrowe & Trull
- Crewkerne
- Curry Rivel & Langport
- Dulverton & Exmoor
- Dunster
- Frome East
- Frome North
- Frome West
- Glastonbury
- Highbridge & Burnham South
- Huntspill
- Ilminster
- King Alfred
- Lydeard
- Martock
- Mendip Central and East
- Mendip Hills
- Mendip South
- Mendip West
- Minehead
- Monkton & North Curry
- North Petherton
- Rowbarton & Staplegrove
- Shepton Mallet
- Somerton
- South Petherton & Islemoor
- Street
- Taunton East
- Taunton North
- Taunton South
- Upper Tone
- Watchet & Stogursey
- Wellington
- Wells
- Wincanton & Bruton
- Yeovil Central
- Yeovil East
- Yeovil South
- Yeovil West
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.