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South Oxfordshire bin collection days

Find out when South Oxfordshire District Council will collect your rubbish, recycling, food and garden waste.

Use the postcode of your home in South Oxfordshire

Find a postcode on Royal Mail's postcode finder

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 South Oxfordshire bin collection days change over Christmas 2026

Bins in South Oxfordshire

South Oxfordshire District Council collects:

  • Grey bin
  • Food bin
  • Garden waste bin
  • Green bin
  • Small electrical items
  • Textiles

From the collections we've found for homes in South Oxfordshire. 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 South Oxfordshire District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.

What you'll need

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

Areas covered

In South Oxfordshire, your bins are collected by South Oxfordshire District Council, not Oxfordshire County Council.

South Oxfordshire District Council collects household bins across its 21 wards in the South East:

  • Benson & Crowmarsh
  • Berinsfield
  • Chalgrove
  • Chinnor
  • Cholsey
  • Didcot North East
  • Didcot South
  • Didcot West
  • Forest Hill & Holton
  • Garsington & Horspath
  • Goring
  • Haseley Brook
  • Henley-on-Thames
  • Kidmore End & Whitchurch
  • Sandford & the Wittenhams
  • Sonning Common
  • Thame
  • Wallingford
  • Watlington
  • Wheatley
  • Woodcote & Rotherfield

Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.

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