How our waste collection services work

How our rubbish and recycling services work if you're new to the borough

How household waste works - blue bin bags

We supply official branded Wokingham Borough Council blue bin bags each year for every household to dispose of their household waste. No other bag or wheelie bin will be emptied
If you live in a flat and use a communal bin - you use your own bags
The annual allocation of blue bags are delivered in February or March each year
Blue bags are collected from each household once a week from the edge of your property - find collection days
Find out where to leave your blue bags for collection

How to get blue bin bags if you're a new resident

If you're new to the area you can order and collect bags using the button below.

Just take your voucher to one of the local hubs to collect the bags in person. The number of bags issued, depends on the date you moved in:

New resident between:

If you have 5 or more people in your household you are entitled to additional blue bin bags if you need them
If you run out you can also buy more blue bin bags

We supply green waterproof recycling bags for each residence to dispose of recycling waste
Recycling bags are collected every week at the same time as we collect your blue bin bags and food waste
Find out what you can recycle in the bags
Find out where to leave your recycling bag for collection
Find out how and where to recycle other items

We provide an annual brown bin collection service for garden waste which is chargeable - bins are collected fortnightly - find collection days
To order an annual brown bin for collection use our garden waste collection order form
You can also buy brown sacks to dispose of garden waste - brown sacks are also collected on your fortnightly garden waste collection day - find collection days
Find out what you can dispose of in garden waste
Find out where to leave your garden waste for collection

Food waste is collected every week at the same time we collect your rubbish and recycling
See the food waste collections page to find out how it works