When are my bins collected?

Type your postcode, pick your address, and see your real Greater Cambridge collection dates for every bin — with an optional email reminder the evening before.

Collections in Cambridge are per address, not per street — two ends of the same road can be on different weeks. Type your postcode, pick your address, and this reads your real dates straight from Greater Cambridge Shared Waste's own service. You can also have an email the evening before, so the bin goes out without anyone having to remember.

Fetching your collection dates from the council…

Worth knowing

Put your bins out by 6am on the day of your collection.
Most homes have the blue and green bins on one week and the black bin the next, fortnightly. Flats and shared buildings can differ — the dates above are read from your own address, so they are the ones that count.
Weekly food waste caddies are arriving across Cambridge in phases through 2026. The council writes to each household with its start date, and the caddy shows up in these dates once your round begins. Until then, food waste goes in the green bin.

Collections in Cambridge are per address, not per street — two ends of the same road can be on different weeks. Type your postcode, pick your address, and this reads your real dates straight from Greater Cambridge Shared Waste's own service. You can also have an email the evening before, so the bin goes out without anyone having to remember.

Fetching your collection dates from the council…

Worth knowing

Put your bins out by 6am on the day of your collection.
Most homes have the blue and green bins on one week and the black bin the next, fortnightly. Flats and shared buildings can differ — the dates above are read from your own address, so they are the ones that count.
Weekly food waste caddies are arriving across Cambridge in phases through 2026. The council writes to each household with its start date, and the caddy shows up in these dates once your round begins. Until then, food waste goes in the green bin.

Businesses and some blocks of flats are on separate commercial or communal collections that this lookup doesn't cover.

Bank holidays and bad weather

Everything on this page is read live from Greater Cambridge Shared Waste’s own bin-day service, so holiday changes appear here only once the council publishes them. If a date looks off around a bank holiday, the council’s page is the last word.

Where this comes from

Collection dates, bin names and colours come from Greater Cambridge Shared Waste’s own bin-day service, fetched when you look up your address — nothing here is retyped by hand. Greater Cambridge Shared Waste

Lookups are powered by BinDays, a free, open-source, donation-funded project that keeps track of how UK council bin-day services work. bindays.app

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