Current bin collection issues
General advice
- If your whole street is missed on collection day, please leave your bin out. We’ll return to collect it the next day.
- If your whole street hasn’t been emptied by 12pm the day after your collection day, please report a missed collection.
- If only your bin has been missed, you can report this after 7pm on your collection day.
- If it is more than 5 days after your collection day, we cannot return but we will be emptied on your next collection day.
Please let any friends, family, or neighbours without internet access know about these arrangements.
- You can squash / flatten your recycling as much as possible - cardboard and plastic bottles etc - to fit more in your correct bins
- Food and garden recycling will only be collected if it is inside the correct bin
- All your cardboard and paper must be inside your blue bin. Excess cardboard can be recycled at a Household Waste Recycling Centre (tip)
- Sign up for weekly emailed reminders about when to put your bins out.
Tips and recycling centres
Remember all items that go in your bins can also be taken to tips/recycling centres.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority manage Manchester's facilities, which are at:
- Reliance Street, Newton Heath, M40 3EZ.
This site will close temporarily for up to 12 months from 8pm on Sunday 29 June, while the facilities are improved. Find out more. During the closure, you can use other tips/recycling centres - Longley Lane, Sharston, M22 4RQ
- Sandfold Lane, Levenshulme, M19 3BJ
Full details are on the Recycle for Greater Manchester website, including opening times and health and safety guidance. You can follow @recycle4gm on twitter for updates.
View traffic situation before setting off:
- Reliance Street, Newton Heath. This site will close temporarily for 12 months from 8pm on Sunday 29 June, while the facilities are improved. Find out more.
- Longley Lane, Sharston
- Sandfold Lane Levenshulme
- Search for alternative Greater Manchester tips
See Recycle for Greater Manchester's A to Z guide for what items you can take to the tips.
Please do not leave any waste outside the Tips or Recycling Centres – leaving waste outside the centres or anywhere else is classed as fly tipping and is a criminal offence for which people will be prosecuted.
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