Recycling - collections

Recycling Collections  - Mixed Dry Recycling

All homes, except some flats that do not have room for additional communal recycling bins, have a fortnightly recycling collection service for paper, cardboard, tins & cans (including empty aerosols and clean kitchen foil) and some types of plastics. Most households will have a green wheelie bin to place these items in, those that do not have room for the wheelie bins can have black boxes to present recycling in. 

Glass bottles and jars can be recycled by taking them to your local bottle banks. It is important to separate the different colours so that they can be recycled into new bottles and jars.

If you are not able to take your glass to the bottle banks, please put it in your grey rubbish wheelie bin/black sacks where it will be recycled into road aggregate after incineration. (Please wrap broken glass before placing in sacks)

Please do not put glass or plastic bags in your

recycling bin/box.   

Information about plastic recycling

Households have a 190 litre grey wheelie bin for their rubbish collection and  green 240 litre wheelie bins for the fortnightly recycling collection. Large families can request larger bins and special arrangements will be made for people who don't have wheelie bins or space for a second bin.

At the end of January 2011, we introduced the new collection service for  food waste recycling. 

To find out your collection day, please enter your postcode in the 'Living in Maidstone' box to the right of this column.  

If your recycling bin or food waste bin was not collected on the due date, please contact us within 48hrs and we will return to collect it. 

Garden waste is collected fortnightly, green bins (with yellow stripe) can be ordered or garden sacks purchased. 

To check the details of your recycling collections, please put your postcode in the box below and click on the ‘search’ button.