Teignbridge bin collection days
Find out when Teignbridge District 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 Teignbridge bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Teignbridge
Teignbridge District Council collects:
- Black box
- Refuse - black bin
- Green box
- Sack for paper
- Food waste container
- Garden waste - green bin
From the collections we've found for homes in Teignbridge. 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 Teignbridge District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Teignbridge, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Teignbridge District 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 Teignbridge, your bins are collected by Teignbridge District Council, not Devon County Council.
Teignbridge District Council collects household bins across its 24 wards in the South West:
- Ambrook
- Ashburton & Buckfastleigh
- Bishopsteignton
- Bovey
- Bradley
- Buckland & Milber
- Bushell
- Chudleigh
- College
- Dawlish North East
- Dawlish South West
- Haytor
- Ipplepen
- Kenn Valley
- Kenton & Starcross
- Kerswell-with-Combe
- Kingsteignton East
- Kingsteignton West
- Moretonhampstead
- Shaldon & Stokeinteignhead
- Teign Valley
- Teignmouth Central
- Teignmouth East
- Teignmouth West
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.