Your Christmas collections wrapped up
Recycling and refuse collections will once again change over the festive period, please take note to make sure you do not miss your collections.
| Usual collection day: | Revised collection day: |
| Monday 25 December | Wednesday 27 December |
| Tuesday 26 December | Thursday 28 December |
| Wednesday 27 December | Friday 29 December |
| Thursday 28 December | Saturday 30 December |
| Friday 29 December | Sunday 31 December |
| Monday 1 January | Tuesday 2 January |
| Tuesday 2 January | Wednesday 3 January |
| Wednesday 3 January | Thursday 4 January |
| Thursday 4 January | Friday 5 January |
| Friday 5 January | Saturday 6 January |
Recycling site opening
All 16 recycling sites will be open on their usual winter hours over Christmas and New Year, except all close on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
Wrapping paper – there will be dedicated ‘pre-sorting areas’ for wrapping paper at each recycling site, please don’t add it to the cardboard skips.
Make sure you know what can and can’t be recycled – try the scrunch test!
- Step 1: Scrunch the wrapping paper into a tight ball.
- Step 2: Open your hand to see if the paper stays scrunched together or bounces back open.
- Step 3: If the paper stays scrunched in a ball, then you know it can be recycled. If it bounces back open then it likely contain foil or plastic and it can't be recycled.
Garden waste collection subscribers
Garden collections will be suspended from Monday 25 December and will resume on Monday 8 January.
If you are a subscriber to our garden waste service, leave your tree, decoration-free, next to your garden waste bin for collection – as long as it is no taller than 6ft. Collections restart on Monday 8 January.