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Denbighshire bin collection days

Most Denbighshire homes use the Trolibocs, a three-tier stack of boxes for paper, mixed metals, plastics and cartons, and glass, alongside a blue bag for cardboard and an orange food caddy, all collected weekly, with a 240-litre wheelie bin for non-recyclable waste emptied every 4 weeks. Homes that cannot store the stack are on a bag service with weekly non-recyclable collections, and flats share colour-stickered communal bins. Everything goes out by 6:30am.

Last checked against 7 sources (www.denbighshire.gov.uk).

What goes in each bin

240-litre blue or black wheelie bin for non-recyclable waste (Trolibocs households) · General waste

Bin · Varies by area, so check your address

Yes please

  • Household waste that cannot be recycled or composted through the kerbside services
  • Black and brown plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays
  • Nappies and wet wipes, unless you register for the AHP caddy
  • Polystyrene

Not in this one

  • Paper, cardboard, metals, plastics, cartons and glass, which go in the Trolibocs and blue bag
  • Food waste, which goes in the orange caddy
  • Garden waste
  • Small electricals and batteries, which have their own weekly collections
  • Bag-service households use a black reusable bag with one pink sack instead

Source: www.denbighshire.gov.uk (opens in a new tab), read

Trolibocs top box (blue lid) for paper, and blue reusable bag for cardboard · Paper and card

Box · Every week

Yes please

  • Top box: letters, envelopes, magazines, newspapers, brochures, catalogues and printed paper
  • Blue bag: cardboard, food packaging sleeves, egg boxes, toilet and kitchen roll tubes and cereal boxes
  • Blue bag: brown paper, which has cardboard-like fibres
  • Blue bag: greeting cards without badges, bows, foil, glitter or ribbons

Not in this one

  • Brown paper in the paper box
  • Cards with glitter, foil or ribbons
  • Tissues and wet paper
  • Food-stained card

Source: www.denbighshire.gov.uk (opens in a new tab), read

Trolibocs middle box (red flap) for mixed metals, plastics and cartons · Mixed recycling

Box · Every week

Yes please

  • Metal cans, tins, empty aerosols and clean foil
  • Plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays
  • Food and drink cartons such as Tetra Pak
  • Metal lids from glass bottles and jars

Not in this one

  • Black and brown plastic, which goes in the non-recyclable bin
  • Plastic bags and wrapping, unless your area is in the 12-week trial
  • Polystyrene
  • Glass, which goes in the bottom box

Source: www.denbighshire.gov.uk (opens in a new tab), read

Trolibocs bottom box (green flap) for glass · Glass

Box · Every week

Yes please

  • Glass bottles with tops removed
  • Glass jars with lids removed

Not in this one

  • Metal lids, which go in the middle box
  • Drinking glasses, Pyrex and ceramics
  • Window glass and mirrors
  • Light bulbs

Source: www.denbighshire.gov.uk (opens in a new tab), read

Orange caddy for food waste, with a silver kitchen caddy · Food waste

Caddy · Every week

Yes please

  • Used teabags and coffee grounds
  • Eggshells, fruit and vegetable peelings
  • Raw and cooked meat and fish, including bones
  • Plate scrapings and leftovers that cannot be kept
  • Food that is no longer safe to eat

Not in this one

  • Packaging
  • Garden waste
  • Liquids
  • Pet waste

Source: www.denbighshire.gov.uk (opens in a new tab), read

Green wheelie bin or green dumpy sacks for garden waste (subscribers) · Garden waste

Bin · Every two weeks

Yes please

  • Grass cuttings and leaves
  • Garden prunings, branches and twigs
  • Bark, wood shavings and bark wood
  • Flowers and plants

Not in this one

  • Soil, stones and compost
  • General household rubbish
  • Food
  • Hay, shavings, wood or paper contaminated by animals

Source: www.denbighshire.gov.uk (opens in a new tab), read

Small electricals on top of the Trolibocs, pink battery clip, purple-lidded AHP caddy and white textile sack · Other collection

Container · Every week

Yes please

  • Small electricals no bigger than an A4 sheet (shavers, hairdryers, irons, kettles, power tools, radios, toasters) placed loosely on top of the Trolibocs
  • Used AAA, AA, C, D and 9V batteries in the pink clip attached to the Trolibocs
  • Nappies, incontinence pads, stoma bags, catheter bags, gloves and aprons in the purple-lidded black caddy, once registered
  • Clothing, shoes, handbags, belts and curtains in the white sack, collected by Co-Options Social Enterprises

Not in this one

  • Electricals larger than A4, which go to a Recycling and Waste Park
  • Electricals with batteries still inside: remove them for the battery clip
  • Electricals or batteries inside a bag or box rather than on top

Source: www.denbighshire.gov.uk (opens in a new tab), read

Check your bin day

We can’t check Denbighshire addresses yet

Live bin day lookups for Denbighshire are planned. Until then, Denbighshire’s own page will show your collection day.

Find my bin day on www.denbighshire.gov.uk(opens in a new tab)

Set your own bin day

These dates are the ones you enter. BinWeek does not get them from Denbighshire. Check them on the council’s site (opens in a new tab) (www.denbighshire.gov.uk).

240-litre blue or black wheelie bin for non-recyclable waste (Trolibocs households) · General waste
Trolibocs top box (blue lid) for paper, and blue reusable bag for cardboard · Paper and card

The council’s pages say this is collected every week. Your round may differ, so use the pattern you were given.

Trolibocs middle box (red flap) for mixed metals, plastics and cartons · Mixed recycling

The council’s pages say this is collected every week. Your round may differ, so use the pattern you were given.

Trolibocs bottom box (green flap) for glass · Glass

The council’s pages say this is collected every week. Your round may differ, so use the pattern you were given.

Orange caddy for food waste, with a silver kitchen caddy · Food waste

The council’s pages say this is collected every week. Your round may differ, so use the pattern you were given.

Green wheelie bin or green dumpy sacks for garden waste (subscribers) · Garden waste

The council’s pages say this is collected every two weeks. Your round may differ, so use the pattern you were given.

Small electricals on top of the Trolibocs, pink battery clip, purple-lidded AHP caddy and white textile sack · Other collection

The council’s pages say this is collected every week. Your round may differ, so use the pattern you were given.

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How often each bin is collected

Collection frequency by bin for Denbighshire
BinCollected
240-litre blue or black wheelie bin for non-recyclable waste (Trolibocs households) · General wasteVaries by area, so check your address
Trolibocs top box (blue lid) for paper, and blue reusable bag for cardboard · Paper and cardEvery week
Trolibocs middle box (red flap) for mixed metals, plastics and cartons · Mixed recyclingEvery week
Trolibocs bottom box (green flap) for glass · GlassEvery week
Orange caddy for food waste, with a silver kitchen caddy · Food wasteEvery week
Green wheelie bin or green dumpy sacks for garden waste (subscribers) · Garden wasteEvery two weeks
Small electricals on top of the Trolibocs, pink battery clip, purple-lidded AHP caddy and white textile sack · Other collectionEvery week

Garden waste

Garden waste is a paid-for service. A subscription for one 140L green wheelie bin or three dumpy sacks costs £47.25 online or £52.50 offline; two bins or six sacks cost £68.25 online or £78.75 offline; keeping an existing 240L or 360L bin costs £68.25 online or £77.25 offline. Adding a bin or 3 sacks costs £21 online or £26.25 offline. Sign up online, on 01824 706000 or at a library or One Stop Shop. The service is not available to bag-service households, and garden waste is free at the Recycling and Waste Parks all year. Fortnightly collections run all year on a subscription from 1 April to 31 March; the price is the same whenever you join and there is no refund for cancelling early.

Source: www.denbighshire.gov.uk (opens in a new tab), read

If your bin was missed

Containers must be out by 6:30am and can be collected any time up to 5pm, so do not report before 5pm. Check first for a contamination tag; a tagged bin is not returned for. Report online from 5pm on the day until 3pm the next working day, or phone 01824 706 000 between 8:30am and 3pm the next working day. Confirmed missed recycling, food, AHP and non-recyclable collections are picked up within 2 working days, garden waste within 5 working days. From 5pm on the collection day until 3pm the next working day (Monday to Friday).

Source: www.denbighshire.gov.uk (opens in a new tab), read

Your nearest tip

Good to know in Denbighshire

  • The current system began on Monday 3 June 2024, when the council moved to the Trolibocs and a four-weekly non-recyclable collection. Trolibocs households keep one 240-litre wheelie bin for rubbish; the smaller black bins were collected and withdrawn.
  • Bag-service households get a dark blue bag for paper, a red bag for metals, plastics and cartons, a turquoise bag for glass, a blue bag for cardboard and an orange caddy, plus a black reusable bag into which one full single-use pink sack of rubbish goes each week. They cannot join the garden waste service.
  • Communal-bin households sort into black bins with blue, red, turquoise and dark blue stickers, a brown wheelie bin for food and a shared black four-wheeled bin for rubbish, emptied every 4 weeks. Small electricals and bagged batteries go on the floor beside the communal bins.
  • Brown paper is the common mistake: it goes with cardboard in the blue bag, not with paper. Glass goes in the bottom box without tops; metal lids go in the middle box with the cans.
  • Small electricals up to A4 size are collected weekly if left loose on top of the Trolibocs or a reusable bag, with any removable batteries taken out and put in the pink battery clip or a tied single-use bag. Textiles go in a white single-use sack for the council's partner Co-Options Social Enterprises.
  • Nappies and other absorbent hygiene products have a free weekly collection in a black caddy with a purple lid, but you have to register for it. Otherwise they go in the non-recyclable bin.
  • From Monday 14 September 2026 the council is running a 12-week trial of plastic bag and wrapping collections in some areas to work out how best to recycle them.
  • Garden waste is a paid subscription running 1 April to 31 March: £47.25 online for one 140L bin or three dumpy sacks, more for two bins or a retained 240L or 360L bin, and cheaper online than by phone or in person. Collections are fortnightly all year, and the parks take garden waste for free.
  • The three Denbighshire Recycling and Waste Parks (Rhyl, Denbigh and Ruthin) are booking-only and open to Denbighshire and Conwy residents with proof of address; Conwy's Mochdre and Gofer sites are shared the same way. Dee Valley residents can also use Corwen's pop-up on the first and third Saturday mornings each month and Plas Madoc in Wrexham. Vans and twin-axle trailers need a Van Ban permit.
  • Bank holidays do not change collection days except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day, and the council keeps a record of bins that were not presented or were contaminated.

Bin questions in Denbighshire

How often is non-recyclable waste collected in Denbighshire?

Every 4 weeks in a 240-litre wheelie bin for Trolibocs households and every 4 weeks in a shared black four-wheeled bin for communal-bin households. Homes on the bag service have a weekly collection of one pink sack inside a black reusable bag. Check your own dates on the council's bin collection dates page.

What is the Denbighshire Trolibocs?

A stack of three boxes: the top box with a blue lid for paper, the middle box with a red flap for metal cans, tins, aerosols, foil, plastic bottles, pots, tubs, trays, cartons and metal lids, and the bottom box with a green flap for glass bottles and jars. Small electricals sit loosely on top and the pink battery clip attaches to it.

How much is garden waste collection in Denbighshire?

£47.25 a year online (£52.50 offline) for one 140L green bin or three dumpy sacks, £68.25 online (£78.75 offline) for two bins or six sacks, and £68.25 online (£77.25 offline) to keep an existing 240L or 360L bin. Adding a bin or 3 sacks costs £21 online. The year runs 1 April to 31 March with fortnightly collections, and the service is not offered to bag-service households.

When can I report a missed bin in Denbighshire?

From 5pm on the collection day, because crews work until then, and no later than 3pm the next working day, online or on 01824 706 000 from 8:30am. Bins that were not out by 6:30am, were put out on the wrong day or carry a contamination tag are not revisited; confirmed misses are collected within 2 working days (5 working days for garden waste).

Do bank holidays change Denbighshire bin days?

No, apart from Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. On every other bank holiday collections run as normal. Bins go out by 6:30am and should stay out until 5pm.

Do I need to book Denbighshire's recycling parks?

Yes. Book before visiting Marsh Road in Rhyl, Colomendy in Denbigh or Lon Parcwr in Ruthin, and bring proof that you live in Denbighshire or Conwy. Commercial-type vehicles and trailers with more than one axle also need a Van Ban permit, and only household waste is accepted.

Is Denbighshire collecting plastic bags and wrapping?

Only in a trial. From Monday 14 September 2026 the council is running a 12-week trial in some parts of the county to find the best way to collect and recycle plastic bags and wrapping. Elsewhere they still go in the non-recyclable waste or to a shop collection point.

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