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Swale bin collection days

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

Use the postcode of your home in Swale

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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 Swale bin collection days change over Christmas 2026

Bins in Swale

Swale Borough Council collects:

  • Blue bin
  • Garden waste
  • Green bin

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

What you'll need

To find your bin days in Swale, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.

Swale Borough 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

In Swale, your bins are collected by Swale Borough Council, not Kent County Council.

Swale Borough Council collects household bins across its 24 wards in the South East:

  • Abbey
  • Bobbing, Iwade and Lower Halstow
  • Borden and Grove Park
  • Boughton and Courtenay
  • Chalkwell
  • East Downs
  • Hartlip, Newington and Upchurch
  • Homewood
  • Kemsley
  • Milton Regis
  • Minster Cliffs
  • Murston
  • Priory
  • Queenborough and Halfway
  • Roman
  • Sheerness
  • Sheppey Central
  • Sheppey East
  • St Ann's
  • Teynham and Lynsted
  • The Meads
  • Watling
  • West Downs
  • Woodstock

Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.

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