The council's bin calendar was still down on 22 September, a third week running, so the app is the only source that keeps up with your 2026 collection dates.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council collects from three wheelie bins, and the pattern is changing. Weekly brown bin collections began on 8 February 2026 in part of the district and reach everywhere else by 9 February 2027. When the change arrives in your area, your blue and green days move too.

This page covers what goes in each bin, what happens on bank holidays, what the extras cost, and where the tips are. Every figure here comes from the council’s own pages, checked on 26 August 2026.

The three bins

The colours catch people out, because green here means general rubbish, not recycling.

Bin What goes in it How often
Green Household waste that cannot go in the blue or brown bin Fortnightly
Blue Recycling: paper, card, cans, plastic bottles, tubs and trays Fortnightly
Brown Garden waste and food waste Fortnightly, moving to weekly

Three rules from the council’s own bin pages are worth knowing before your next collection:

  • Blue bin items must go in loose. Bags and liners get the bin tagged and left. The one exception is shredded paper, which can go in a clear carrier bag.
  • No plastic at all in the brown bin. That includes plant pots and food packaging.
  • Compostable and biodegradable plastics are not accepted in the blue bin or the brown bin. The council’s own advice is to compost them at home or put them in the green bin, because they do not break down in the in-vessel composting process it uses on brown bin waste.

Put your bin out at the edge of your property by 7am. Crews work until 4.30pm.

Find your collection dates by postcode on the council’s site. There is also a free East Riding of Yorkshire Council app, which the council says updates automatically when dates change for holidays, bad weather or road closures.

Garden waste is free here

There is no garden waste subscription in the East Riding. Garden waste goes in the brown bin at no extra charge, alongside food waste, and the council provides a kitchen caddy and liners free of charge. Neighbouring City of York charges for the equivalent service.

Weekly brown bins, and why your other bin days move

Weekly brown bin rollout across the East Riding, February 2026 to February 2027 A two-stage rollout. The first stage began on 8 February 2026 and covers roughly two thirds of the district, including Bridlington, Driffield, Holderness, Market Weighton and Goole. The remaining third, including Beverley, Cottingham, Willerby, Brough, Anlaby and Hessle, joins by 9 February 2027. The council received nearly £3 million of ring-fenced government funding for the change. Food waste makes up about 23 per cent of what goes in East Riding green bins. Two stages, a year apart Source: East Riding of Yorkshire Council, weekly brown bin collections page, checked 26 August 2026. 8 Feb 2026 9 Feb 2027 Stage one, about two thirds of the district Bridlington, Driffield, Holderness, Market Weighton, Goole Weekly since 8 February 2026 Stage two, the remaining third Beverley, Cottingham, Willerby, Brough, Anlaby, Hessle Still fortnightly, weekly by 9 February 2027 Food waste is the single biggest thing in East Riding green bins, at around 23 per cent. The government gave the council nearly £3 million, ring-fenced, to make the change. Graphic by East Riding Today

The council is doing this because every council in England is now required to collect food waste weekly. It says the change is fully funded by government, which gave it nearly £3 million, ring-fenced, for bins, caddies, staff and vehicles.

The part that affects everyone is buried further down that page. When weekly brown collections start in your area, your blue and green bin days also change. They stay fortnightly, but the day moves. Every household was sent a new calendar in February covering 2026/27.

The online bin calendar is down, and the app is the way round it

If you have tried to look up your East Riding bin collection dates for 2026 and got nowhere, it is not you. The council’s own bin collection dates page is carrying a red notice, still live when we checked it again on 22 September 2026:

The online bin calendar is temporarily unavailable until we can resolve some technical issues. In the meantime, please refer to your paper calendar which has recently been posted to you. We apologise for the inconvenience.

That is the third week running we have found it there. We checked on 7 September, on 14 September and again on 22 September, and the wording has not changed by a word, so this is not a passing outage. The postcode box, the address picker, the green, brown and blue bin panels, the calendar code field and the “Download calendar” button are all still on the page; they simply return the notice instead of your dates. The council has still not given a date for the fix, and there is no dated status update anywhere on the page.

The same page also still carries the two notices that sit either side of the outage: that weekly brown bin collections “are being rolled-out from February 2026”, with green and blue days changing when the rollout reaches each area, and that “your collections will temporarily change following a bank holiday”. Both of those send you to the collection checker for your revised dates, and the collection checker is the thing that is down.

One thing the same page does say, and it matters more than usual this autumn: “your collections will temporarily change following a bank holiday”, and it points you at the collection checker to find the revised dates. With the checker out of action, the app is the only way to see those changed dates.

That is the page that normally takes a postcode, shows your next collections and offers a printable calendar with a calendar code on it. With it out of action there are three routes left to your dates, and only one of them updates itself:

  1. The paper calendar posted to every household covering 2026/27. It is accurate on the ordinary rounds, but it is a printed sheet, so it will not tell you about a change.
  2. The East Riding of Yorkshire app, free on the App Store and Google Play and linked from the council’s bin collection dates page. Add your address once and it holds your collection dates, sends reminders on whatever schedule you choose, and, in the council’s own words, “automatically shows any changes to your bin collection dates during holidays or due to bad weather or road closures”. That last part is the reason to use it over the paper copy: it is the only source that reflects a disrupted week.
  3. Ringing the council, if the address is a new build the app does not hold.

The timing is awkward, because this is the year the dates are moving anyway. When weekly brown bin collections reach your area, your blue and green days change with them, and the second stage of that rollout runs until 9 February 2027 across Beverley, Cottingham, Willerby, Brough, Anlaby and Hessle. A paper calendar printed before your area switched will be wrong about the new day. If you are in stage two, the app is not a convenience, it is the only thing that will keep up.

Bank holidays and Christmas

The council does not publish a bank holiday policy page, which is the single biggest gap in its bin information. It points people to the app instead.

So we checked its own bin-day lookup on 26 August, for 48 addresses across 11 East Riding towns, covering 144 individual bin collections. Not one was due on Monday 31 August, the summer bank holiday. The next Monday collections in that sample all fell on 7 September. No collection was flagged as a changed date.

If your round is normally a Monday, in other words, do not put the bin out on the bank holiday. Check your own address on the lookup or in the app before the week of any bank holiday, because that is the only per-property source the council maintains.

At Christmas, the household waste recycling sites close on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, and the council says they are open on all other holiday periods. Wrapping paper and Christmas cards go in the blue bin, not the paper bank at a tip, because paper bank material goes straight to a mill. Remove sticky tape, ribbons, glitter and any electronics first. Christmas trees go next to your brown bin on your normal collection day, with all decorations and lights removed.

Missed collection: you have two working days

The window is short and the council enforces it.

  • Do not report it before 4.30pm on the collection day. Crews work until then.
  • After that, you have two working days from the scheduled collection to report it.
  • Miss that window and the council will not come back. Your options are the next scheduled collection, a tip, or a paid bulky collection.
  • Once reported, a return visit can take up to five days, and your bin needs to stay out.

The council lists five common reasons a bin gets left:

  • it went out after 7am
  • the lid was not fully closed
  • there was side waste on the ground next to it
  • parked cars stopped the lorry reaching the property
  • the wrong things were inside, in which case a tag is left explaining why

The council will not take side waste that does not fit in the bin.

Bulky waste

Prices rose on 1 April 2026. From that date the council charges:

  • £43.00 for one to five standard items, such as a sofa or an oven
  • £86.00 for six to ten standard items
  • a quote for non-standard items such as kitchen or bathroom suites, sheds and radiators, with a minimum of £52.81

Standard items can be booked and paid for online. Non-standard items get a quote by email or post, which you accept by phone on (01482) 393939, at a customer service centre, or by cheque. Collections run Tuesday to Friday, and the day depends on your area. Leave items outside at ground level from 7am. Crews will not enter a house, garage, shed or outbuilding.

Before you pay, check whether the item can be reused instead. Any of these can be donated free at a tip, in the container marked for reuse, as long as they still work:

  • fridges and freezers
  • washing machines and tumble dryers
  • dishwashers
  • cookers and single or double ovens
  • microwaves

Dove House Hospice will also collect large working electricals free of charge, provided they pass a safety test on collection. Ring (01482) 586238. Full details are on the council’s bulky waste page.

The tips, and the free pass you need to get in

There are ten household waste recycling sites across the East Riding, plus 103 smaller bring sites and recycling banks. The ten tips are at Airmyn, Beverley (Weel Road), Carnaby, Driffield, Hessle and North Ferriby (Humberfield), Hornsea, Market Weighton, Pocklington, Preston and Withernsea.

Beverley’s own tip on Weel Road is reopening. It shut while Weel Bridge was refurbished. The bridge reopened on 25 September and the council said the tip would reopen at 10am on Saturday 26 September. (East Riding of Yorkshire Council, 26 September 2026) Its published hours are 10am to 5pm, seven days a week.

You now need to prove you live in the East Riding to get in:

  • A Resident’s Pass is free. It came with the paper council tax bill posted in March 2026, and runs until 31 March 2027. Display it in the windscreen or on the dashboard.
  • No pass, including if you get an online bill? Bring a driving licence with an East Riding address, a utility bill or bank statement from the last three months, or a council tax bill from the last twelve. A copy on a phone or tablet is accepted.
  • The council’s wording is blunt: “You will be refused entry to the site if you do not have valid proof.”
  • You can pick up a replacement pass at any tip from April 2026 by showing that ID.
  • Moving within the East Riding? Take the pass with you. Moving out? Leave it for the new residents.

Vans, two-door pick-ups, sign-written vehicles and trailers larger than 6ft by 4ft need a separate tip permit. You cannot take a wheelie bin to a tip, and you cannot take business waste. Sort your load before you arrive, or staff will direct you to a sorting area on site.

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Checked 26 August 2026 against East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s bins and collections, bulky waste, recycling site and Resident’s Pass pages, and its bin-day lookup. Prices and dates change. Confirm anything that matters with the council before you rely on it.