Rubbish collection

Bin days

Our normal bin day is Thursday; over Christmas and New Year it may well be on Friday or Saturday.

• We have three bins – blue for ‘dry’ recyclable things like paper and plastics; green for garden and food waste and black for anything else.

South Cambs District Council’s website details what are my bins for?.

Blue and green bins are collected one week, black the next. In Hatley, our bins are normally emptied before 9.30 am.

• SCDC only collects green bins once a month from mid-December to late February or early March.
• A reminder – small, used batteries (inside a little bag) can be put on the top of any colour bin – the top, not inside to prevent bin lorries catching fire (which has happened several times over the last year or so).
• Regarding your waste, SCDC says: ‘Food and drink packaging or containers need to be rinsed – they don’t have to be pristine, but food, grease and liquids left inside will spoil paper and card, making it unsuitable for recycling. In turn, wet paper and card sticks to plastic packaging, making that harder to recycle too. These problems result in tonnes of items which could have been recycled having to be disposed of in landfill instead.’

Which day?

And if you lose track of whether it’s a blue / green or black week (even though we try to keep this website up to date), you can find out via the ‘which day‘ page on SCDC’s website.

_{Page created 26th July 2018; updated 27th February 2025.}