Brown bin collections to go weekly in the East Riding

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is introducing the shift to meet a new Government directive that all authorities must collect food waste from all households on a weekly basis.

The changes are being funded by the Government and will be extended to all East Riding residents by 2027.

Brown bins – used to dispose of and recycle food and garden waste – are currently collected fortnightly in the East Riding.

The weekly collections of brown bins will begin from Monday, February 9 for two thirds of the East Riding – including the Bridlington, Driffield, Holderness, Market Weighton and Goole areas.

They will then be rolled out to the remaining third from February 2027 to towns and villages in the Beverley, Cottingham, Willerby, Brough, Anlaby and Hessle areas.

To accommodate the new rounds the council has created more than 50 new jobs for additional bin crews and is due to buy 16 new bin lorries, funded by the Government.

To prepare for the change, the council’s waste and recycling team is urging residents to make an extra special effort to recycle all their food waste using their brown bins and kitchen caddies.

Everyone’s bin collection days will change when the new weekly rounds begin – for all brown, blue and green bins.

Blue and green bins, however, will still be collected fortnightly.

All households will be sent a recycling information pack through the post in the next few weeks which will include a bin collection calendar showing their new dates for 2026/27.

People can also download the East Riding of Yorkshire Council app to get the new dates on their mobile phones.

More than 99,000 people have downloaded the app so far and signed up to receive bin day reminders – which will automatically send them notifications for their new bin days.

Councillor Paul West, the council’s cabinet member for environment and transport, said: “Thank you in advance to residents for supporting the new weekly brown bin collections.

“People in the East Riding are among the very best recyclers in the country and I have no doubt we can rely on them to back these new changes and recycle as much food waste as they can.”

Kitchen caddy bags are available free from the council’s household waste recycling sites, customer service centres, leisure centres and libraries.