If your bin is damaged, has gone missing or you need more space you can request a new bin online.
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Bins and recycling
If you are struggling to put your bins out for collection Leeds City Council can provide support. This service helps frail, elderly, disabled or incapacitated persons where there are no able bodied residents to present the wheeled bin to the kerbside.
Request or cancel an assisted waste collection
Find out your collection date for individual waste and recycling bins
If you bin or medical waste has not been collected on your schedule day, find out how how to report it as missed.
What to put in your bins
Yes please
Your black bin is for general household waste only.
Try to recycle as much as you can in your green recycling bin
Your household waste should be placed inside the bin with the lid closed. We do not collect extra bags on top of or near your bin.
No thanks
We will not collect your bin if you put items in that are hazardous, too large or heavy.
Find out what to do with the things that cannot go in your black bin.
A to Z of reusing, recycling and waste disposal
Watch a video about what can go in each bin *coming soon*
Bag collection service
If we collect bags from you, please remember that 3 is the maximum number of bags on a collection.
Yes please
- aluminium
- aerosols
- bubble wrap
- cardboard
- carrier bags
- cartons and Tetra Paks
- foil including food containers and takeaway trays
- glass bottles and jars
- metal cans
- paper
- plastic bottles, tubs and pots
- plastic types 1 (PET), 2 (HDPE), 4 (LDPE) and 5 (PP)
- stretchy plastic bags and wrapping
Make sure that your recycling is clean and dry before you put it into your green bin.
No thanks
Find out what to do with the things that cannot go in your green bin.
A to Z of reusing, recycling and waste disposal
Watch a video about what can go in each bin *coming soon*
Extra recycling
We will collect any extra recycling if you leave it in a clear or green plastic bag at the side of your bin on collection day.
You may also want to think about requesting an extra green bin.
Yes please
- flowers and plants
- grass cuttings
- hedge clippings
- leaves
- twigs and small branches (no more than 3cm thick)
- windfall fruit
Please put these into your bin loose and do not use any plastic bags.
No thanks
- branches over 3cm thick
- food waste, including fruit and vegetable peelings
- Giant Hogweed
- Himalyan Balsam
- Japanese knotweed
- pet bedding, pet waste or cat litter
- plastic of any kind, including compostable and biodegradable plastics
- Ragwort
- rubble
- soil or compost
Find out what to do with the things that cannot go in your brown bin.
A to Z of reusing, recycling and waste disposal
Watch a video about what can go in each bin *coming soon*
Reduce your garden waste by composting at home
You can compost most types of garden waste at home.
Find more information on composting
If you do not have a brown bin you can book a garden waste collection online
Leeds City Council proves a free collection service for Leeds residents who need medical or clinical waste collecting from their home.
Yes please
- bandages
- plasters
- wound dressings
- swabs
- renal bags
- colostomy bags - empty
- surgical gloves, aprons, shoe and hair covers
- needles (housebound patients who live alone only)
- clinical body wash and cleaning agents
No thanks
- needles, syringes and pens - return these to your doctor
- incontinence pads - bag these and put it in your black bin
- medical implements
- excrement and bodily fluids
- medication, tablets and creams - return these to your doctor or pharmacist
- blood, human or animal waste
- general household waste - bag this and put it in your black bin
Request, amend, cancel or report a missed medical waste collection online