Waste & Recycling over the festive period - help and advice
Residents in the Borough are reminded that there will be changes to waste and recycling collections over Christmas and New Year.
Get details of the collection dates for your home.
Additional household waste (Black bin)
You can place one additional refuse sack alongside your black bin collection on your first scheduled household waste collection only after Christmas Day.
Additional recycling (Green bin)
You can place additional recycling in a small cardboard box alongside your green recycling bin. Please ensure larger cardboard boxes are folded or cut into manageable sizes.
Make sure you squash down cans and cardboard boxes to fit as much in your recycling bin as possible. Any waste over and above this should be taken to your local waste and recycling centre
Find out what do to with your Christmas waste
Garden Waste Collections
Garden waste collections are suspended after Friday 20 December collections and will resume on your usual recycling collection day from week commencing Monday 6 January 2025. Please remember to remove non-organic material from natural door wreaths before putting them into your garden waste bin.
Christmas trees
If you subscribe to our garden waste scheme, we will collect your real Christmas tree on your scheduled collection day - just place it next to your garden waste bin. We can only collect trees that are up to 4ft in length, so please cut longer trees to this size. Residents can take to the local Household Waste and Recycling Centre if they aren’t a member of our garden waste service.
Glass box collections
In your black mixed glass box you can recycle all your glass bottles and jars such as sauce, jam and pickle jars and glass drink bottles. Please ensure they are empty and relatively clean for collection.
Your Council issued glass box will be emptied on the same day as your green recycling bin.
Please do not:
- overfill your glass box (we do not collect glass side waste)
- use non Council glass boxes
- place broken glass in the box
- put in other items other than those listed above (this include non-glass lids)
Sorry, but we cannot recycle glass vases, drinking glasses or candle holders