Westmorland and Furness bin collection days
Find out when Westmorland and Furness 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 Westmorland and Furness bin collection days change over Christmas 2026
Bins in Westmorland and Furness
Westmorland and Furness Council collects:
- General waste
- Recyclable waste
From the collections we've found for homes in Westmorland and Furness. 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 Westmorland and Furness 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 Westmorland and Furness Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.
What you'll need
To find your bin days in Westmorland and Furness, you'll need your postcode, then you choose your address from a list.
Areas covered
Westmorland and Furness Council took over from these councils, which no longer exist:
- Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council (until 2023): Barrow-in-Furness
- Eden District Council (until 2023): Penrith and Appleby-in-Westmorland
- South Lakeland District Council (until 2023): Kendal, Windermere and Ulverston
Westmorland and Furness Council collects household bins across its 33 wards in the North West:
- Alston and Fellside
- Appleby and Brough
- Bowness and Lyth
- Burton and Holme
- Coniston and Hawkshead
- Dalton North
- Dalton South
- Eamont and Shap
- Eden and Lyvennet Vale
- Grange and Cartmel
- Greystoke and Ullswater
- Hawcoat and Newbarns
- Hesket and Lazonby
- High Furness
- Kendal Castle
- Kendal Highgate
- Kendal Nether
- Kendal South
- Kendal Strickland and Fell
- Kent Estuary
- Kirkby Stephen and Tebay
- Levens and Crooklands
- Low Furness
- Old Barrow and Hindpool
- Ormsgill and Parkside
- Penrith North
- Penrith South
- Risedale and Roosecote
- Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale
- Ulverston
- Upper Kent
- Walney Island
- Windermere and Ambleside
Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.