Waste & Recycling

Shinfield Parish falls within the Local Authority of Wokingham Borough Council (WBC) who handle all household waste – see below

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Visit WBC’s website for up-to-date information on general, food, garden waste & recycling.

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Veolia collect on behalf of WBC
Current allocations

NEWS from Wokingham Borough Council 

Changes to waste coming this spring/summer (2024) 

  • We’ll be delivering your new black wheeled rubbish bin at some point in late spring 2024. We’ll ask you to start using it from August 2024, replacing the current blue bag system for most properties

  • We’ll then start emptying your wheeled bin every fortnight, instead of the weekly bag collections, to help us reduce our borough’s environmental impact and make essential savings
  • Your wheeled bin will hold 180 litres, about two full blue bags’ worth of rubbish. You may need to recycle more or reduce your waste as we’ll only take one full bin per collection.
  • We’ll also be collecting your recycling from your usual green bags every other week, on the weeks when we don’t empty your wheeled rubbish bin
  • Your food waste collection will remain weekly and the optional garden waste collections will remain fortnightly.

New Residents

If you are new to the area and just moved in within the Parish, please call Wokingham Borough Council on 0118 9746000 to request your quota of blue waste bags and recycling bags if there aren’t any already at the property – waste bags can be collected from us once you receive your confirmation e-mail and CRM number. 

(Lower Earley Library stock green recycling bags, you can have up to 6)

If you require additional Waste Bags

*Green food waste bags are no longer available – you can use your own

*Blue bags, £10.50 for 10 x bags 

 *Brown waste bags £1.20 each (no limit)

The above can be obtained from the School Green Centre, make sure you visit WBC’s website to pay for these online (we will need to see the confirmation e-mail) 

Glass recycling sites

For other sites and more information, click below

School Green Car Park, Shinfield, RG2 9EH: Glass & Clothing Banks 

Ryeish Green Sports Hub: Glass Bank

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