The council's lookup now shows October dates. For several addresses the collection day moves, and one Popley round goes from Tuesday to Friday.
Basingstoke and Deane’s new bin collections start on Monday 12 October 2026, and the council’s own address lookup has now been switched over. It is worth using this week, because for a lot of households the change is not only about frequency. The day your bins are collected moves as well.
We ran the council’s check your collection day tool against seven addresses across the borough on Sunday 7 September. In five of them the lookup returned an October date. In four of those five, that date fell on a different weekday from the one the same page prints at the top of the results.
One Popley address goes from Tuesday to Friday.
What we found
Each result below is the address’s own recycling and glass collection dates, taken from the council’s lookup on 7 September. The “collected on” column is the day the lookup itself still states above the dates.
| Address | Lookup says collected on | First date after 12 October |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Abbey Court, Popley Way, RG24 9DX | Tuesday | Friday 16 October |
| 1 Pearces Place, Kingsclere, RG20 5NA | Wednesday | Tuesday 13 October |
| 39 High Street, Overton, RG25 3HQ | Tuesday | Wednesday 14 October |
| 125 Western Way, RG22 6EX | Wednesday | Tuesday 20 October |
| 1 Canberra Way, RG22 4AL | Monday | Monday 19 October |
Two more addresses we checked, 1 Montague Place in RG21 and 39 Mount Pleasant in Tadley, returned no date past 12 October at all, so their new day is not visible yet. More on why below.
Why your rubbish dates are probably still blank
The lookup gives only three dates ahead for each stream. Rubbish and food waste are still weekly until 12 October, so three weekly dates from today only reach 21, 22 or 23 September depending on your round. That is why every address we tried still shows “your waste is collected weekly” with no October date at all.
Recycling, glass and garden waste are already fortnightly, so three dates ahead carries them into October, and that is where the change becomes visible.
The practical test: look at your recycling or glass list. If the third date it gives you falls after 12 October, that date is your new day. If all three are in September or early October, check again in a fortnight.
What actually changes on 12 October
The council set this out on its changes to your waste collections page.
| Container | Frequency from 12 October |
|---|---|
| Food waste caddy | Every week |
| Black or grey waste bin | Every two weeks |
| Green recycling bin | Every two weeks |
| Green glass box or red glass bin | Every two weeks |
| Brown garden waste bin (if subscribed) | Every two weeks |
The rubbish bin and the recycling bin alternate. Food waste stays weekly, which is the council’s answer to the smell and vermin questions, because that is where most of the problem material is.
The change is not staggered across the borough. The council names a single start date. But the alternating weeks are not synchronised borough-wide: of the addresses we checked, some have recycling in the week beginning 12 October and others in the week after.
Why the council is doing it
Basingstoke and Deane is the only waste collection authority in Hampshire still collecting rubbish weekly, and one of just 16 councils in the whole UK that still do. It also has, on its own admission, one of the poorest recycling rates in the county.
The targets behind the change are national. The council must halve what it collects as waste by 2042, and lift recycling from 30% to 65% by 2035. Its own estimate is that over 40% of what goes into black and grey bins today could already be recycled through services that exist.
Three things worth doing before October
- Check whether you can have a bigger bin. The standard bin for one or two people is 140 litres. Households with three or more permanent occupants can have a 240 litre bin, and households of six or more can apply for an extra one. The eligibility rules are on the council’s additional waste bin page. Extra bins are emptied fortnightly like everything else, so applying late costs you a cycle.
- Order a second recycling bin if you need one. They are free, and the whole design of the change assumes you move material out of the grey bin.
- Ring the council if there is a medical reason. The council says households where someone’s medical needs create extra waste should contact it to discuss additional support. That is a conversation to have before the first fortnightly collection, not after it.
The plastics gap, which has not gone away
Only plastic bottles can go in the green recycling bin from home. Pots, tubs, trays and film cannot, and will not be able to until Hampshire County Council opens its new materials recovery facility in 2028.
Until then the council’s advice is to use the temporary mixed plastic banks at its six recycling sites, or to keep putting plastic packaging in the grey bin, stacked or squashed to save space. That is the awkward part of a fortnightly rubbish service in this borough, and it is worth knowing before your bin gets full.
What it means for you
Do not assume your bin day is staying put. Four of the five addresses we could get an October date for are changing weekday, in two cases by three days. A leaflet and a calendar are due by post in September, but the lookup is live now and it is address-specific.
If you are one of the households whose day is not yet visible, that is a quirk of the lookup showing three dates ahead, not a sign that nothing is changing for you.
Nappies, incontinence products and pet waste still go in the rubbish bin. The council’s line is that wrapping them securely and keeping the lid shut should stop extra smells. If that is not enough for your household, the additional bin route and the medical support route are both open now.
Full detail on frequencies, garden waste prices, communal bins for flats and the Christmas schedule is on our Basingstoke bin collection days page.
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