Tendring bin collection days
Find out when Tendring 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 Tendring bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Tendring
Tendring District Council collects:
- Residual waste
- Green recycling box
- Red recycling box
- Food waste
- Garden waste
From the collections we've found for homes in Tendring. 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 Tendring District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Tendring, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Tendring 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 Tendring, your bins are collected by Tendring District Council, not Essex County Council.
Tendring District Council collects household bins across its 32 wards in the East of England:
- Alresford & Elmstead
- Ardleigh & Little Bromley
- Bluehouse
- Brightlingsea
- Burrsville
- Cann Hall
- Coppins
- Dovercourt All Saints
- Dovercourt Bay
- Dovercourt Tollgate
- Dovercourt Vines & Parkeston
- Eastcliff
- Frinton
- Harwich & Kingsway
- Homelands
- Kirby Cross
- Kirby-le-Soken & Hamford
- Lawford, Manningtree & Mistley
- Little Clacton
- Pier
- St Bartholomew's
- St James
- St John's
- St Osyth
- St Paul's
- Stour Valley
- The Bentleys & Frating
- The Oakleys & Wix
- Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland
- Walton
- Weeley & Tendring
- West Clacton & Jaywick Sands
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.