Bin days in Largs

This week

Your collection day depends on your street — somewhere between Monday and Friday. The colour does not: every household in Largs puts out the same coloured bin in the same week.

The next three weeks

• Blue week of 17 August brown: 3B streets
• Purple week of 24 August brown: 3A streets
• Grey week of 31 August brown: 3B streets

The brown bin, and which calendar you are on

Largs is covered by two of the council's collection calendars, 3A and 3B. For the grey, blue and purple bins the two are identical — the same colour in the same week, every week of the year. The only difference between them is the brown bin, which is fortnightly and falls a week apart: when 3A puts brown out, 3B does not, and the week after they swap.

So there is one thing worth checking once. Look your address up on the council's checker, see which week your brown bin falls in, and match it against the panel above — that tells you whether you are 3A or 3B, and it stays the same from then on. Brown often lands on a different day from your coloured bin: a Monday street might have brown on the Wednesday, a Friday street on the Tuesday.

Brown also stops entirely over the festive fortnight, in different weeks for each calendar, while the coloured bins keep running. The council announce those dates each December.

Which bin takes what

• Grey General household waste
• Blue Paper, card and cardboard
• Purple Plastics, cans and cartons
• Brown Food and garden waste · fortnightly, separate round

Bins should be out at the kerbside by 7am on your collection day. The council's pages have the detail on what belongs in each bin, missed collections, caddies and bulky uplifts.