The information on this page is for Cornwall’s new weekly food waste and fortnightly recycling and rubbish collections. We are rolling this new service out across Cornwall area by area from 2023 to 2025.
If you’ve not had a ‘Get Ready for Your New Waste Collections’ leaflet in the post and new bins delivered to your home, you’re still on the current weekly rubbish and fortnightly recycling collections.
Please note: details may vary for blocks of flats and other properties with shared bins.
Food waste collections weekly
We'll give you a silver kitchen caddy for separating your food waste from your rubbish each day.
And a green outdoor caddy that you'll put your food waste out in for us to collect weekly.
We will collect your food waste at the same time as your recycling on your recycling week. Your food waste will be collected at a different time to your rubbish on your rubbish collection week.
Find out how to use your new food waste recycling service
Recycling collections fortnightly
You'll keep putting your recycling out for us to collect fortnightly in the same bags and box you use at the moment with the current service.
Order more recycling bags and boxes
Find out what goes in each recycling bag and box
Find out what happens to your recycling after we collect it
Rubbish collections fortnightly
We'll give you a wheelie bin or reusable protective sack to put your rubbish out in for us to collect fortnightly.
Both the wheelie bin and the sack hold 180 litres of rubbish - that's about 3 to 4 black bags.
We'll only collect rubbish that fits in your bin or sack with the lid closed. We won't take extra bags left next to your bin or sack.
If you're recycling everything you can, you should be able to fit all your rubbish in your bin or sack with the lid closed.
Find out how to use your new rubbish collection service
Garden waste collections by subscription only
If you can't compost your garden waste yourself at home, you can subscribe to our garden waste collection service.
We'll collect your garden waste from you fortnightly in the brown wheelie bin or reusable protective sack you buy from us when paying for your collection subscription.