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Wokingham bin collection days

Find out when Wokingham Borough Council will collect your rubbish, recycling, food and garden waste.

Use the postcode of your home in Wokingham

Find a postcode on Royal Mail's postcode finder

This service is for homes only. Businesses usually arrange their own waste collection.

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 Wokingham bin collection days change over Christmas 2026

Bins in Wokingham

Wokingham Borough Council collects:

  • Household waste
  • Recycling
  • Garden waste

From the collections we've found for homes in Wokingham. 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 Wokingham Borough Council's website, or use the Recycle Now Recycling Locator.

What you'll need

To find your bin days in Wokingham, you'll need your postcode, and your house number or name.

Wokingham Borough 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

Wokingham Borough Council collects household bins across its 18 wards in the South East:

  • Barkham & Arborfield
  • Bulmershe & Coronation
  • Emmbrook
  • Evendons
  • Finchampstead
  • Hawkedon
  • Hillside
  • Loddon
  • Maiden Erlegh & Whitegates
  • Norreys
  • Shinfield
  • South Lake
  • Spencers Wood & Swallowfield
  • Thames
  • Twyford, Ruscombe & Hurst
  • Wescott
  • Winnersh
  • Wokingham Without

Ward names from the Office for National Statistics.

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