Data sources

Binmap data sources and licences

Binmap is built from data published by councils, public bodies, OpenStreetMap and the people who run each place. This page lists each source and its licence.

Public bin locations

Public bin locations come from UK councils. Some publish them as open data and others supplied them on request. Unless stated otherwise, they are used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Some bins councils have not listed come from OpenStreetMap. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.

Councils that supplied bin locations

Aberdeen: Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeenshire: Aberdeenshire Council
Angus: Angus Council
Ashfield: Ashfield District Council
Ashford: Ashford Borough Council
Barking and Dagenham: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Basildon: Basildon Borough Council
Basingstoke and Deane: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
Bath and North East Somerset: Bath and North East Somerset Council
Belfast: Belfast City Council
Bexley: London Borough of Bexley
Blackburn with Darwen: Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
Boston: Boston Borough Council
Braintree: Braintree District Council
Buckinghamshire: Buckinghamshire Council
Caerphilly: Caerphilly County Borough Council
Cambridge: Cambridge City Council
Cannock Chase: Cannock Chase District Council
Canterbury: Canterbury City Council
Charnwood: Charnwood Borough Council
Cheshire East: Cheshire East Council
Chorley: Chorley Council
City of London: City of London Corporation
Conwy: Conwy County Borough Council
Coventry: Coventry City Council
Dacorum: Dacorum Borough Council
Denbighshire: Denbighshire County Council
Derby: Derby City Council
Doncaster: City of Doncaster Council
East Devon: East Devon District Council
East Renfrewshire: East Renfrewshire Council
East Staffordshire: East Staffordshire Borough Council
Elmbridge: Elmbridge Borough Council
Enfield: London Borough of Enfield
Exeter: Exeter City Council
Folkestone and Hythe: Folkestone and Hythe District Council
Gloucester: Gloucester City Council
Gravesham: Gravesham Borough Council
Harborough: Harborough District Council
Hastings: Hastings Borough Council
Havant: Havant Borough Council
Hounslow: London Borough of Hounslow
Hull: Hull City Council
Islington: London Borough of Islington
Kirklees: Kirklees Council
Lancaster: Lancaster City Council
Leeds: Leeds City Council
Manchester: Manchester City Council
Merthyr Tydfil: Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
Milton Keynes: Milton Keynes City Council
Neath Port Talbot: Neath Port Talbot Council
New Forest: New Forest District Council
Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle City Council
Newcastle-under-Lyme: Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
North Ayrshire: North Ayrshire Council
North Devon: North Devon Council
North Hertfordshire: North Hertfordshire District Council
North Lincolnshire: North Lincolnshire Council
North Tyneside: North Tyneside Council
North Warwickshire: North Warwickshire Borough Council
North Yorkshire: North Yorkshire Council
Nottingham: Nottingham City Council
Peterborough: Peterborough City Council
Plymouth: Plymouth City Council
Redditch: Redditch Borough Council
Rochford: Rochford District Council
Rother: Rother District Council
Rugby: Rugby Borough Council
Sandwell: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Sevenoaks: Sevenoaks District Council
Sheffield: Sheffield City Council
Shropshire: Shropshire Council
South Ayrshire: South Ayrshire Council
South Lanarkshire: South Lanarkshire Council
South Ribble: South Ribble Borough Council
Southampton: Southampton City Council
Southend-on-Sea: Southend-on-Sea City Council
Stroud: Stroud District Council
Swale: Swale Borough Council
Tewkesbury: Tewkesbury Borough Council
Thanet: Thanet District Council
Three Rivers: Three Rivers District Council
Tunbridge Wells: Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Wakefield: Wakefield Council
Walsall: Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
Watford: Watford Borough Council
Wealden: Wealden District Council
Welwyn Hatfield: Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
West Berkshire: West Berkshire Council
West Lindsey: West Lindsey District Council
West Lothian: West Lothian Council
West Norfolk: Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk
West Suffolk: West Suffolk Council
Westminster: Westminster City Council
Westmorland and Furness: Westmorland and Furness Council
Wigan: Wigan Council
Wiltshire: Wiltshire Council
Winchester: Winchester City Council
Woking: Woking Borough Council

Tips, banks and charity shops

Most tips, bottle banks, clothes banks and charity shops come from OpenStreetMap. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.

Opening hours and accepted items come from operators' own websites where they publish them, eg council tip pages and charity shop pages. Each place page names its source.

Postcodes, addresses and areas

Postcode and area data comes from the Office for National Statistics and Ordnance Survey.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right. Contains GeoPlace data © Local Government Information House Limited copyright and database right.

Address search uses Royal Mail Postcode Address File data under licence.

Bin collection dates

Collection dates come from the council that collects at the address, at the time of the lookup. They belong to that council. Each council page links to the council's own bin day page.

Dog walks

Dog walk options, and the woods, water and cafés they pass, come from OpenStreetMap. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.

Photos on dog walks come from Geograph Britain and Ireland. Each is © its photographer, named beside it, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.

National park boundaries come from Natural England. Contains Natural England data © Natural England copyright, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Map tiles

Binmap's own work

The written guides, the software and the way sources are combined and checked are Binmap's own. The terms of use say what you can reuse.

Binmap is independent and is not endorsed by any council.

Last updated: 10 October 2026

Binmap is independent and is not run by any council.