Worcester City Council is planning to implement a 'same material, same week' bin collection service.
Currently half of the city has waste collected one week, while the other half have their recycling picked up.
However, there is more demand on waste collections compared to recycling.
Plans, if approved by councillors, will see the whole city have their waste collected on one week and recycling the next.
To implement the changes half of the city would see their bin collection routine changed, to align with the rest.
Proposals will be considered by the City Council's Environment Committee when they meet on Tuesday 4 June.
If approved, then people who usually have recycling collected in the week commencing July 23 will instead have waste picked up.
Lloyd Griffiths, Corporate Director for Operations, Homes & Communities said: "These changes are required to make our bin collection service more efficient moving forward.
"With a small fleet of waste collection vehicles, providing extra resilience to the service is paramount as extra stress is placed on it by additional homes.
"If one of the collection vehicles has an issue with breakdowns, staffing changes or inclement weather, then it will be easier to cover the workload if all of the remaining vehicles are gathering the same type of waste.
"Due to the imbalance of waste and recycling bins put out for collection and traveling time to disposal facilities, there is surplus capacity on the recycling rounds, whilst waste rounds have minimal capacity.
"The adjustment will also aid the service in readiness for the mandatory introduction of food waste collection 2026."
Moving to a uniformed collection across Worcester will result in delaying additional financial capital to match the housing growth with an extra collection round.
All wards across the city that are on recycling collections during the week commencing 23 July, will be affected by the change and instead have their waste collected that week.
For residents impacted a temporary side waste allowance would be made the following week so that residents could place excess recycling in tied recyclable bags next to their bin, should their recycling bins have reached capacity.
More information on how to obtain the additional bags will be circulated nearer the time.
All affected properties will start to receive letters in the middle of June, and this will also include a new calendar for future collections.
Any errors made by residents in putting out the wrong bin would be corrected by the collection teams following the missed bin process.
