About Binmap

Binmap is a free UK website that shows where things go: the nearest public bin, tip, bottle bank or clothes bank, and your bin day.

What Binmap does

The map shows public bins and the places that take what a street bin cannot. These include tips, bottle banks, clothes banks, charity shops and retailers that take things back.

Item guides say what to do with one thing at a time, eg batteries, paint or a mattress.

Bin day pages find your next collection dates by asking the council that collects from your address.

Who runs it

Binmap is run by Rob Software Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with number 16217626.

Binmap is not a council. No council or government body runs it, pays for it or endorses it.

You can reach the operator through the contact page.

Where the data comes from

Public bin locations come from councils. Some publish them as open data and others sent them when asked. The data sources page names every council.

Most tips, bottle banks, clothes banks and charity shops come from OpenStreetMap. Opening hours come from the operators' own websites where they publish them.

Bin day dates come from the council's own system when you look them up. Binmap reuses a result for up to a week, so a repeat visit is quick.

How the data is checked

Each place page names its source and the date its details were last checked.

When a place's details are out of date, its page is kept out of search results until they are checked again.

When someone reports that a bin is missing or in the wrong place, a person reads the report before the bin is changed.

Report a mistake

To report a public bin, open it on the map and report it from there.

For anything else, use the contact page. This includes a closed site, wrong opening hours or a bin day lookup that did not work.

What Binmap cannot do

Binmap cannot change a collection, report a missed bin or order a new bin. Your council does those, and each bin day page links to its website.

Your council is the authority for its own collections. If a date here differs from the council's date, go by the council.

Last updated: 15 October 2026