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Rubbish and recycling collections over the Christmas period
It is that time of the year when people ask: will there be any changes to my weekly and fortnightly rubbish/recycling collections? The good news is unless your collection for either rubbish, clinical waste, recycling or garden waste collections falls on Boxing Day, then there will be no change to your collection. As Boxing Day (Monday 26 December) is the only collection day that is affected over Christmas and New Year.
Now if your collection would have been on Boxing Day, then your rubbish and clinical waste due to be collected on Boxing Day will be collected on Monday 2nd January. If your recycling or garden waste collection waste is due on Boxing Day (Monday 26 December) it will be collected on Saturday 31st December .
Date Rubbish and Clinical Recycling or Garden Boxing DayMonday 26 December No collection
Next collection on Monday 2 January. No collection
Next collection on Saturday 31 December
For anyone wanting to use the Household Waste and Recycling Centres, these will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. The people at these centres need a day off too!
The Council will still collection you Christmas Tree for free, and yes it only applies to Christmas trees. This free collection will start from the 9th January and 16th January. All you have to do is put your tree out on your normal rubbish collection day on the alternate week to your recycling collection. The trees will be collected and then shredded and composted. You can also take your tree to the Household Waste and Recycling Centres.
The following items can be recycled in the following ways:
- Christmas cards – There are various charity collections for Christmas cards. You can also put them in your cardboard bag as part of your household recycling collection.
- Envelopes – Envelopes can go in your household recycling collection. White envelopes should go into the bag for paper, coloured or brown envelopes should go with the cardboard.
- Wrapping paper – We can take wrapping paper that isn’t coated with foil or plastic. Please put all non-shiny wrapping paper in bag for paper, and remove any sticky tape, string or ribbons.
- Cardboard – Over Christmas there are a lot of extra cardboard boxes. Flatten the boxes and put them in the orange cardboard recycling bag. If the boxes are too big, flat pack them, tie them in a bundle and put them out next to your recycling. If you have very large amounts of cardboard, you can either take it to your local Household Waste and Recycling Centres or put it out for the kerbside collection over a couple of weeks.
- Tin Foil – Put scrunched up tin foil into the sack for plastic bottles and cans.
- Sweet and biscuit tins – You can put chocolate and biscuit tins out for recycling in the sack for plastic bottles and tins. We can only accept metal sweet and biscuit tins at this time. We cannot take the plastic tubs. (Unless you are in the pots tubs and trays trial)
If you have more kerbside recycling than usual, please put it out in carrier bags. Glass bottles and jars must be put in a rigid box.
Merry Christmas and keep recycling!!
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