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20 Nov 2023
Reminder for last garden waste collections of the year
With over four million brown bins emptied each year from over 218,000 households, Leeds City Council delivers the largest garden waste collection service in the UK.
However, brown bin collections are going into their usual annual winter hibernation after Saturday 2 December, meaning most households will have their last collection in late November.

18 Oct 2023
Young people across Leeds urged to get involved with the big recycling hunt, part of Recycle Week 2023
This recycle week, Leeds City Council and Recycle Now are launching a fun mission for primary school children with the arrival of the big recycling hunt.

03 Aug 2023
Council awarded funding to tackle the sticky issue of chewing gum on Leeds's streets
Leeds City Council is collaborating with Keep Britain Tidy to trial approaches to remove chewing gum, that blights busy city centre streets, after successfully bidding for a £24,994.50 chewing gum task force grant.

20 Jul 2023
Council’s reuse partners named in top 100 UK social enterprises
Leeds City Council’s two main reuse partners, Revive Leeds and Seagulls Reuse, have been named among the top 100 social enterprises in the UK, in this year’s NatWest SE100 Index.

03 Apr 2023
‘Leeds Goes Purple’ makes an impact in the fight against litter
Press release issued in partnership with Litter Free Leeds

10 Mar 2023
Friday update on impact of snow in Leeds

09 Mar 2023
Updates on cold weather disruption

28 Feb 2023
Council continues wheelie bin crackdown in support of communities
Following successful prosecutions in Leeds Magistrates Court, several households in the Nowells and Bellbrookes area of Burmantofts have been hit with £7910.40 in fines and costs

02 Dec 2022
Festive waste and recycling collection arrangements announced for Leeds
With over a thousand tonnes of extra black and green bin waste expected to be produced and over a million bins to be emptied across Leeds during the festive period, the council’s refuse service will be doing all it can to ensure bin collections continue to run smoothly.

17 Nov 2022
Reminder for last garden waste collections of the year
With over four million brown bins emptied each year from over 215,000 households, Leeds City Council delivers the largest garden waste collection service in the UK.
However, brown bin collections are going into their annual winter hibernation after Saturday 3 December, meaning most households will have their last collection in late November.

18 Oct 2022
Keen recyclers invited to lead the way by becoming online #Binfluencers
Residents across Leeds are being invited to lead the way and become #Binfluencers by helping make sure more recyclable material ends up in green bins across the city.