West Northamptonshire bin collection days
Find out when West Northamptonshire 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 West Northamptonshire bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in West Northamptonshire
West Northamptonshire Council collects:
- Refuse
- Recycling
- Food
From the collections we've found for homes in West Northamptonshire. 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 West Northamptonshire 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 West Northamptonshire Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in West Northamptonshire, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
West Northamptonshire Council took over from these councils, which no longer exist:
- Daventry District Council (until 2021): Daventry and Brixworth
- Northampton Borough Council (until 2021): Northampton
- South Northamptonshire Council (until 2021): Towcester and Brackley
West Northamptonshire Council collects household bins across its 35 wards in the East Midlands:
- Abington & Phippsville
- Billing
- Blackthorn & Rectory Farm
- Brackley
- Braunston & Crick
- Brixworth
- Campion
- Castle
- Cogenhoe & The Houghtons
- Dallington Spencer
- Daventry North East
- Daventry North West
- Daventry South
- Deanshanger & Paulerspury
- Duston
- Far Cotton, Delapre & Briar Hill
- Hackleton & Roade
- Headlands
- Hunsbury
- Kingsley & Semilong
- Kingsthorpe North
- Kingsthorpe South
- Long Buckby
- Middleton Cheney
- Moulton
- Naseby
- Nene Valley
- Parklands
- Rural North East
- Rural South Northamptonshire
- Talavera
- Towcester
- Upton
- Weston Favell & Abington Vale
- Woodford & Weedon
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.