Your waste and recycling collection service

Collected every week

• Food waste - in a dedicated, sealed bin. We now collect some small batteries and vapes weekly alongside your food waste collection. For further details visit: Vapes/E-cigs Batteries

Collected every two weeks

Green wheelie-bin/green bag

Food tins, drink cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles, aerosols and foil, drinks cartons/tetra paks. For full details on accepted items, a downloadable list can be found here 

• What happens to our plastic recycling?
• Visit Stroud District - Gloucestershire Recycles to see view destinations for Stroud's recyclable material
• View the Terracycle website to explore recycling options for items that cannot be recycled at the kerbside 

Recycling box

Paper and cardboard

Please flatten card and cardboard and place it in your recycling box.  Excess cardboard can be left out in pieces reduced down to approximately the size of your green box. Please place it tidily underneath or next to your recycling box on your collection day. Packaging from large appliances and household goods, will not be collected unless it has been flattened and folded to approximately the size of the recycling box.

Grey refuse bin/beige bags
Leftover non-recyclable waste.

All residual waste from the grey refuse bin/beige bags is treated at Javelin Park Waste to Energy Facility.  For more information please visit: www.ubbgloucestershire.co.uk  

Stroud District Council waste collection policy: Waste Collection Policy   

• Missed collections

  If we've missed your bin collection then you can report it to us and we'll re-collect it.