Waste
- Wokingham Borough Council supplies 80 blue bin bags per year for each residence to use to dispose of household waste
- They don’t supply blue bin bags if you use a communal bin e.g. for flats – you need to use your own
- Blue bin bags are delivered by 1 April each year
- Blue bin bags are collected from each household once a week from the edge of your property – find collection days
- If you’re new to the area and need to organise delivery of your blue bin bags visit order blue bin bags if you’re a new resident
- If you have 5 people in your household you can ask for an extra 20 blue bin bags free – phone 0118 974 6000 or email: customerservice@
wokingham.gov.uk - If you have 6 or more people in your household you can ask for an extra 40 bin bags free – phone 0118 974 6000 or email: customerservice@
wokingham.gov.uk - If you need you can also buy more blue bin bags – £4 for 10 blue bin bags – to reduce your waste see love food hate waste website
- Find out what you can dispose of in blue bin bags
- Find out where to leave your blue bin bags for collection
Recycling
- Wokingham Borough Council supplies a black recycling box for each residence to dispose of recycling waste
- Recycling boxes are collected from each household once a week from the edge of your property on the same day as blue bin bags – find collection days
- If you are new to the area to organise delivery of your recycling box phone 0118 974 6000 or email: customerservice@
wokingham.gov.uk - If you need more recycling boxes you can order additional recycling boxes for free with no limit
- Find out what you can dispose of in recycling boxes
- Find out where to leave your recycling box for collection
- Find out how and where to recycle other items
Food Waste
As of April 2019, Wokingham issued every household with a food waste bin and caddy, these are to be put out with blue bags and recycling boxes weekly – click here for more information
Garden Waste
- Wokingham Borough Council provides an annual brown bin collection service for garden waste which costs £60 a year- annual 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 for £1 each – 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
Recycling sites:
Schools Green, Shinfield: Glass & Clothing Banks