Wigan's four bins, what goes in each, and how the two-week and three-week cycles work — with a live check for bank-holiday weeks.
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Wigan has four kerbside bins on two different cycles, and it's easy to lose track of which one is out this week. Here's what goes in each bin and how often it's collected. For your street's exact collection days, use the council's address checker below — it's the only place that knows your address.
No bank holiday affecting collections this week
Your green bin — food and garden waste, with the small silver kitchen caddy — is collected every two weeks. Your other three bins are each collected once every three weeks: the blue bin (paper and card), the brown bin (metal, glass and plastic), and the black bin (general waste). Collections run Tuesday to Friday, and the day depends on your address, so check your street below.
When in doubt, leave it out — the wrong item can spoil a whole load of recycling.
Food and garden waste
Green bin (with a small silver kitchen caddy)
Every fortnight (alternating)Food can go straight in — no bag needed. The caddy and compostable liners are for carrying it out to the bin.
Goes in
Keep out
Paper and card
Blue bin (or white sack)
Every three weeksGoes in
Keep out
Metal, glass and plastic
Brown bin
Every three weeksGoes in
Keep out
General waste
Black bin
Every three weeksThis is the bin on the three-weekly cycle that gets talked about most. Squashing and sorting the recycling out of it is what makes three weeks work.
Goes in
Keep out
Your exact day and week — check by address
Report a missed bin after 8pm on your collection day and within 48 hours. report it online
Bank-holiday dates from GOV.UK bank holidays · council bins page.