Stoke-on-Trent bin collection days
Find out when Stoke-on-Trent City 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 Stoke-on-Trent bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent City Council collects:
- Grey bin
- Blue bin
From the collections we've found for homes in Stoke-on-Trent. 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 Stoke-on-Trent City 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 Stoke-on-Trent City Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Stoke-on-Trent, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
Stoke-on-Trent City Council collects household bins across its 34 wards in the West Midlands:
- Abbey Hulton
- Baddeley, Milton & Norton
- Basford & Hartshill
- Bentilee, Ubberley & Townsend
- Birches Head & Northwood
- Blurton
- Boothen
- Bradeley & Chell Heath
- Bucknall & Eaton Park
- Burslem
- Burslem Park
- Dresden & Florence
- Etruria & Hanley
- Fenton East
- Fenton West & Mount Pleasant
- Ford Green & Smallthorne
- Goldenhill & Sandyford
- Great Chell & Packmoor
- Hanford, Newstead & Trentham
- Hanley Park, Joiner's Square & Shelton
- Hartshill Park & Stoke
- Hollybush
- Lightwood North & Normacot
- Little Chell & Stanfield
- Longton & Meir Hay South
- Meir Hay North, Parkhall & Weston Coyney
- Meir North
- Meir Park
- Meir South
- Moorcroft & Sneyd Green
- Penkhull & Springfields
- Sandford Hill
- Trent Vale & Oak Hill
- Tunstall
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.