A neighbour board of how long it has been since refuse was collected, area by area — the collection record the council no longer publishes.
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Household refuse in Bulawayo is meant to be collected once a week, door to door. What is not published anywhere is which day, or whether it happened. Council told Full Council in July 2026 that 14 of its 20 refuse compactors have outlived their service life, that 10 to 12 are on the road on a good day for the whole city, and that wards 6 to 29 are collected by the Bulawayo Waste Management Truckers Association rather than by council trucks at all.
So the honest version of "when is the bin lorry coming" is this: how long has it been since it last came, area by area, according to the people who live there. Tap your area and say when you last saw a collection. Over a few weeks this becomes the record the city no longer publishes.
Tap your area to say when refuse was last collected there.
Ward 1 — collected by council compactors along with the eastern suburbs.
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The oldest townships, west of the CBD.
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Around the stadium.
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Old Magwegwe, Magwegwe West and North.
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Old Luveve, New Luveve, Luveve 5.
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All of Nkulumane 1 to 12.
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Old Pumula, Pumula North, South and East.
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Wards 6, 15 and 28 — the city's largest and fastest-growing suburb.
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The low-density eastern suburbs.
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North and north-east of the centre.
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How this board works
This board is neighbours telling each other what they have seen. It is not a council schedule, not a promise, and not a prediction of when the lorry will next come — nobody here can send one. If your area has been missed, reporting it to the council is still the only thing that gets it on their record; this page just makes it easier to see that you are not the only one.
Source: Areas from the council's own Councillors & Wards directory; the collection picture from Bulawayo City Council Full Council minutes reported by CITE, July 2026, checked 31 July 2026 (today).