Bank holiday refuse and recycling collections

Bin collections stay the same on all bank holidays, with the exception of Christmas and New Year.

Christmas and New Year Bin collections 2024

Remember to put your bin out the night before if you want a lie in!

And please make sure that you keep access to your street clear so that our bin wagons can get through. One of the main reasons for missed bin collections on bank holidays is because of double parking and cars blocking back streets.

Collections are back to normal from Monday 6 January 2025.

Bulky waste collections

Bulky collections will stop after Friday 20 December. They will start again on Monday 6 January 2025.

Christmas trees

You can take your real Christmas tree to any Household Waste Recycling Centres.

If you don't want to recycle your tree, you can put it out with your normal waste on collection day.

Recycling advice for over the Christmas period

You can take extra waste and recycling to your local Household Waste Recycling Centres. They are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Extra recycling

We cannot accept any extra recycling in plastic bags/sacks. 

Extra recycling must be left out on the correct day in a box where we can see the contents and empty straight into the waggon. We will return the box to you.

Please do not use a carbodard box if the weather is wet.

If it is a cardboard box containing paper and cardboard left with your blue bin, we will recycle the box with the contents.

We will not collect extra none recyaclable waste.

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