A bin man with a green recycling bin (Image: Stock)Grey bins go fortnightly from OctoberFrom October, grey rubbish bins will be collected every other week, with food waste caddies still emptied weekly, and green recycling bins and glass boxes collected on alternating weeks. Weekly collections will continue for waste causing smell or hygiene concerns, alongside a separate service for medical waste such as adult nappies. Basingstoke and Deane is currently the only Hampshire authority still running weekly general waste collections, and one of just 16 councils out of 360 in England yet to move to fortnightly rounds. Outside food waste bin (Image: Stewart Turkington)Food waste collections: the results so farWeekly food waste collections launched last October, ahead of the government's mandatory April 2026 deadline. Residents could leave items in a bag on top of their bin, cutting the risk of lithium batteries causing fires in bin lorries when thrown into general waste.