Food waste collections
We provide households in Cornwall with a green outdoor caddy for storing your food waste and putting it out for collection
If you have a silver caddy from when the food waste service began, you can use it to collect food waste. If you no longer have your silver caddy, you can use any suitable container to collect food waste indoors.
If you need any replacement or additional outdoor food caddies, recycling bags or boxes, you can order them using the link below.
We collect food waste weekly and rubbish and recycling fortnightly on alternate weeks.
So put your caddy out with either:
- Your wheelie bin or protective sack on rubbish week, or
- Your coloured bags and black box on recycling week
Find your collection day, view and your collection calendar
Find out how to use your food waste collection service
Recycling collections 
We collect recycling using the coloured bags and black box fortnightly. If you need any replacement or additional food caddies, recycling bags or boxes, you can order them using the link below.
Find out what goes in each recycling bag and box
Find out what happens to your recycling
Rubbish collections
We assessed the outside of every home on our rubbish collection rounds. We gave you either a wheelie bin or a reusable protective sack for your rubbish. Rubbish is collected fortnightly, on the opposite week to your recycling.
Both the wheelie bins and protective sacks have a capacity of 180 litres and fit roughly 3 to 4 black bags. We only collect rubbish that fits inside your bin or sack with the lid closed. We won't take extra bags left next to or on top of your bin or sack.
Most households who use our food waste and recycling collections find they have enough space in their bin or sack to dispose of all their rubbish each fortnight. If you have extra waste from time to time, you can take it to one of our HWRCs to dispose of it.
Find out how to use your rubbish collection service
Garden waste collections (subscription service)
We offer a garden waste subscription service to households in Cornwall.
We'll collect your garden waste from you every fortnight. This will be from the brown wheelie bin or reusable protective sack you have purchased from us.