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How the weekly food caddy and the alternating fortnightly bins work, what goes in each, and whether a bank holiday is shifting collections this week.
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Cheltenham Borough Council collects bins on a fortnightly cycle, with the food caddy out every week. This explains which bin goes with which week, what belongs in each, and — checked against the official bank-holiday list — whether collections are shifting this week. For the exact day and which week your street is on, use the council's address checker below.
A bank holiday is coming up
Your food caddy goes out every week. Your green refuse bin and your green recycling boxes are collected on alternating weeks — one week the refuse bin, the next week the recycling — and the food caddy joins whichever is out. If you subscribe to garden waste, the brown bin is collected every fortnight too.
When in doubt, leave it out — the wrong item can spoil a whole load of recycling.
Food waste
Food caddy (kitchen + outdoor)
Every weekCollected every week, with whichever bin is out that week. Liners can be plastic bags, compostable liners, newspaper or kitchen roll — or none at all.
Goes in
Keep out
General waste
Green wheelie bin
Every fortnight (alternating)Every two weeks, alternating with recycling. The lid must close — extra bags left beside the bin are not collected.
Goes in
Keep out
Recycling
Green boxes and blue bag
Every fortnight (alternating)Every two weeks, alternating with the green refuse bin. Sort into the boxes (tins and plastics, paper, glass) with flattened card in the blue bag — unsorted boxes are left behind.
Goes in
Keep out
Garden waste
Brown wheelie bin
Every fortnight (alternating)A paid subscription — £60 a year per bin plus a £4.99 delivery charge. Collected every fortnight, apart from about four weeks over Christmas and New Year.
Goes in
Keep out
Your exact day and week — check by address
Report within 48 hours of your collection day, and only if the bin was out at the kerb by 7am. The council aims to return within two working days. Call 01242 262626 · report it online
Bank-holiday dates from GOV.UK bank holidays · council bins page.
Bank holiday Monday 31 August
The food caddy weekly · green, blue and brown every fortnight
Summer bank holiday