Non-metropolitan district · East of England, England

Epping Forest bin collection day

Check your Epping Forest bin day, plan around bank holidays and set up free reminders for every collection. Epping Forest District Council empties bins in 11 postcode districts, including CM4, CM5, CM16 and CM17, covering places such as Abbess Roding, Beauchamp Roding and Berners Roding.

Check a postcode in Epping Forest

Not sure whether your street is in Epping Forest? Postcode districts on council borders can be split, so enter your full postcode to check.

Epping Forest at a glance

132,175residents (2020)

339 km²area

11postcode districts

49places listed

About 132,175 people live in Epping Forest (mid-2020 estimate) across 339 square kilometres. That makes it a mix of towns and countryside, where rural rounds can be long and run early.

Council: Epping Forest District Council
Type: Non-metropolitan district
County council: Essex County Council
Region: East of England

Who collects what in Epping Forest

Epping Forest District Council collects household bins, recycling, garden waste and bulky items. Essex County Council is the waste disposal authority, so it runs the household waste recycling centres (the tips) and decides where the waste goes after collection. If you have a question about your bin day, missed bins or new bins, contact Epping Forest. For tip opening hours, van permits or booking a tip slot, contact Essex County Council.

Bank holidays and Epping Forest bin days

When a bank holiday lands on or before your collection day, Epping Forest may collect as normal or move collections later in the week. These are the next bank holidays in England and Wales:

Christmas and New Year cause the biggest changes. See Christmas bin collections for what usually happens.

Recycling rules in England

Under Simpler Recycling, councils in England must collect the same core recycling from every home: paper and card, glass, metal, plastic (including cartons), food waste every week, and garden waste for households that ask and pay any charge. The rules applied from 31 March 2026, with plastic film and bags joining the plastic stream from 31 March 2027. Councils still choose their own bins, colours and rotas.

GOV.UK: Simpler Recycling household guidance

Not sure which bin something goes in? Our which bin A to Z covers everyday items, and bin colours explained covers what each colour usually means. Epping Forest has the final say, so check its website if your bin label disagrees.

Postcode districts in Epping Forest

Epping Forest collects bins in all or part of these postcode districts. Districts marked on more than one council page cross a boundary.

• CM4
• CM5
• CM16
• CM17
• CM19
• CM22
• EN9
• IG7
• IG9
• IG10
• RM4

Towns and villages in Epping Forest

Bins in these places are collected by Epping Forest.

• Abbess Roding (CM5)
• Beauchamp Roding (CM5)
• Berners Roding (CM5)
• Bobbingworth (CM5)
• Broadley Common (EN9)
• Buckhurst Hill (IG9)
• Bumble's Green (EN9)
• Chigwell (IG7)
• Chigwell Row (IG7)
• Chipping Ongar (CM5)
• Clatterford End (CM5)
• Coopersale Common (CM16)
• Epping (CM16)
• Epping Green (CM16)
• Epping Upland (CM16)
• Fiddlers Hamlet (CM16)
• Fyfield (CM5)
• Grange Hill (IG7)
• Greensted (CM5)
• Hastingwood (CM17)
• High Beach (IG10)
• High Laver (CM5)
• High Ongar (CM5)
• Little End (CM5)
• Little Laver (CM5)
• Loughton (IG10)
• Lower Nazeing (EN9)
• Magdalen Laver (CM5)
• Matching (CM17)
• Moreton (CM5)
• Nazeing (EN9)
• North Weald Bassett (CM16)
• Norton Heath (CM4)
• Norton Mandeville (CM5)
• Pickerells (CM5)
• Roydon (CM19)
• Roydon Hamlet (CM19)
• Sheering (CM22)
• Shelley (CM5)
• Shellow Bowells (CM5)
• Stanford Rivers (CM5)
• Stapleford Tawney (RM4)
• Theydon Bois (CM16)
• Thornwood Common (CM16)
• Toot Hill (CM5)
• Tylers Green (CM16)
• Upshire (EN9)
• Waltham Abbey (EN9)
• Willingale (CM5)

Councils near Epping Forest

• Harlow bin collection
• Broxbourne bin collection
• Brentwood bin collection
• Redbridge bin collection
• Waltham Forest bin collection
• Havering bin collection

Bin Collection Day is independent and not run by Epping Forest District Council. Collection dates and services can change at short notice; the council's website is always the final word.