For Sandwell residents, Serco provides the following waste collection service to domestic properties:
- A weekly collection of general household waste
- A weekly collection of food waste
- A weekly collection of mixed dry recyclables
- A fortnightly chargeable collection of garden waste. Suspended during winter months.
You can check your bin day - all you need is either your house number (or house name) and postcode.
Please be aware that some of the fortnightly garden waste collections have been affected due to a system error. This error has now been resolved, please re-check the bin day finder for your garden waste collection date. This information is only available when a household has subscribed to the garden waste collection service.
This bin day finder only gives bin day information for households that have kerbside bin collections. Flats, apartments, sheltered housing and homes with communal bin stores will be offered recycling services at a later date. If you are a business, please contact Trade Waste.
When to put your bins out
Please put your bins out by 5.30am on your collection day.
The collection time for any property cannot be guaranteed and is subject to traffic, roadworks and other local events which may delay a collection or lead to changes to the order that streets are visited.
If you report a missed collection before the round is completed, you will see a message that says "round not completed".
Poor or dangerous weather conditions may mean that start and/or finish times could change to reduce risks to both staff and the general public.
These might include:
- During cold weather - rounds may start later than 5.30am to allow temperatures to rise to reduce ice on roads and/or pavements, to reduce both staff slipping injury and vehicle collision due to sliding on ice.
Communal bin properties
Collections for properties that use shared communal bins will be emptied on a regular basis and frequency and collection day will be subject to property circumstances.