Wakefield bin collection days
Find out when Wakefield Metropolitan 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 Wakefield bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
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 Wakefield Metropolitan District Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Wakefield, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council collects household bins across its 21 wards in the Yorkshire and The Humber:
- Ackworth, North Elmsall & Upton
- Airedale & Ferry Fryston
- Altofts & Whitwood
- Castleford Central & Glasshoughton
- Crofton, Ryhill & Walton
- Featherstone
- Hemsworth
- Horbury & South Ossett
- Knottingley & Ferrybridge
- Normanton
- Ossett
- Pontefract North
- Pontefract South
- South Elmsall & South Kirkby
- Stanley & Outwood East
- Wakefield East
- Wakefield North
- Wakefield Rural
- Wakefield South
- Wakefield West
- Wrenthorpe & Outwood West
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.