Your waste and recycling at Christmas

Our collection teams will be working hard over Christmas and the New Year to continue providing recycling and rubbish collections for residents. This year, our crews will enjoy four well-earned days off over the festive period, something we’ve never been able to do before! To make this happen, several changes to collection days will be implemented.

Key changes:

Other things you should know:

  • We can collect extra recycling. You need to put it in clearly labelled carrier bags alongside your recycling boxes. You need to separate materials in the same way you do for your boxes. We won't collected bags containing mixed recycling. So, in different bags should be: 
  • You can also order additional recycling boxes if you want them.
  • You need to:
    • flatten cardboard boxes - pieces must be no larger than 70x70cm to fit in our recycling vehicles.
    • keep all plastic wrapping and film out of your recycling (find out how to recycle this type of plastic at REpeat the CYCLE)
    • never put batteries in your recycling box – they can cause fires and endanger our crews (these can be recycled at most supermarkets)
    • keep our crews safe by making sure all aerosol cans are completely empty before recycling them in your red box – part full cans can be a fire risk.
  • We won't collect extra rubbish. You need to keep this until your next collection or take it to the Reuse and Recycling Centre. 
  • You can use our Waste Wizard tool to find out how best to dispose of items.
  • We ho-ho-hope we don't miss a collection, but if we do you can report a missed collection.
  • If you have a real Christmas tree, we'll collect it in the New Year. Or, you can take it to a Christmas tree collection point. See: Christmas tree collections.

 

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