Residents who leave rubbish next to their bins could be fined as part of major bin changes for one part of Leicestershire.

The changes, being put forward by North West Leicestershire District Council (NWLDC), would affect towns and villages including the likes of Coalville, Ashby and Whitwick.

As part of the major move, NWLDC is set to scrap its bags-and-bins system for a more streamlined approach to rubbish collection, replacing its existing red boxes and blue and yellow bags with two recycling bins.

Instead, residents will receive a 180L orange-lidded bin for plastics, cans, tins, foil, aerosols, and glass and a 180L blue-lidded bin for cardboard and paper.

This will sit alongside the standard black bin for non-recyclable waste as well as the garden waste bin.

Households will also get two silver containers for food waste – a seven-litre indoor kitchen caddy and a 23-litre outdoor kerbside caddy for the new rollout.

From November 2026, 12,829 households encompassing Coalville, Whitwick, New Swannington, and parts of Hugglescote and Thringstone – who get their bins collected on Wednesday – will be among the first households to be part of the new system.

Council officers have said the rationale for these areas being chosen first is due to their "close proximity to the council's waste and recycling depot", "it fits within a single collection day", "includes a broad mix of housing types and demographics" and "aligns with some of the council's existing food waste and

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FlexCollect trials operating in the area".

The new bin system will then be slowly phased through other parts of the district until 2027 with a further 12,500 households every four months.

The council is also set to bring in a number of policy changes as a result of the new bin system being rolled out.

NWDLC has said it will no longer collect textiles despite collecting seven tonnes of them each year.

Officials said this move was due to "low quality" textiles being collected, meaning they can't be reused and leading them to be incinerated.

32 terrace homes within the district are also set to get two smaller

140-litre wheeled bins due to the street not being able to "safely accommodate" the larger 180-litre wheeled bins.

These streets mostly include houses on Church Lane, Hermitage Road and Silver Street in Whitwick as well as Breach Road in Coalville.

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NWDLC has also warned that it may not collect any excess waste left at the side of bins as part of the new system as part of a new policy change.

According to its new Excess Waste policy, any waste or recycling left beside any wheeled bin or food waste caddy will not be collected, with residents potentially being prosecuted for fly-tipping.

Council officials have said "excess waste collections may be agreed in advance with the council, on a case-by-case basis" but the council "may exercise discretion in exceptional circumstances where justified".

Officials say "residents will be encouraged to flatten, squeeze and squash their recycling to make efficient use of space within their recycling bins".

NWLDC has said that households of four or more residents may request two larger 240-litre bins where additional capacity is needed and "will be assessed on a case-by-case basis".

Bin bosses have also revealed that households will get an initial roll of 52 food waste caddy liners, providing approximately one year's supply for food waste.