How to check your bin day for any UK council (in 10 seconds)

Everyone's been there: it's the night before, you can hear a lorry two streets over, and you cannot for the life of you remember whether it's recycling week or garden week. Your council's website has the answer somewhere — buried behind a cookie banner, a login, and four clicks. Here's the 10-second version instead.

The quickest way: one box, your postcode

We built a single checker that works for every council we cover — over 330 of them, ~90% of the UK. Type your postcode, pick your address, and see every upcoming collection with the bin colours for your area. No account, nothing to install.

Want the short link to bookmark or share? It also lives at checkmybinday.co.uk — easier to remember than hunting for your council's page every time.

Already know your council?

Jump straight to your area's page — each one shows the checker plus local guidance on bin colours, collection times and garden-waste rules:

• Solihull
• Manchester
• Edinburgh
• Wigan
• …or browse all supported councils.

The catch with checking every week

Checking is quick, but you still have to remember to check — and that's the bit that fails at 9pm on a Sunday. Bank holidays shuffle everything (here's how the bank-holiday shuffle works), schedules change, and one missed general-waste week means two weeks of overflow.

So after you've checked, do the thing that means you never have to again: let us send a free reminder the evening before every collection — email or push, matched to your exact address. Set it once and forget bin day for good.