Bin collection dates and recycling over the Christmas period
Changes to collection dates - and how to get recycling right
This festive season, there will be a few changes to your usual bin collection schedule due to Bank Holidays.
Your Christmas waste collections 2025
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Normal Collection Day |
Revised Collection Day |
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Thursday 25 December |
Saturday 27 December |
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Friday 26 December |
Monday 29 December |
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Monday 29 December |
Tuesday 30 December |
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Tuesday 30 December |
Wednesday 31 December |
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Wednesday 31 December |
Friday 2 January |
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Thursday 1 January |
Saturday 3 January |
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Friday 2 January |
Monday 5 January |
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Monday 5 January |
Tuesday 6 January |
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Tuesday 6 January |
Wednesday 7 January |
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Wednesday 7 January |
Thursday 8 January |
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Thursday 8 January |
Friday 9 January |
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Friday 9 January |
Saturday 10 January |
Make sure you get Recycling Right this Christmas
There’s always a large amount of waste for households to dispose of after the festive season
The UK generates a staggering amount of card packaging waste, particularly during peak seasons like Christmas.
Research indicates that over a quarter of this packaging was not recycled in 2023. And when items like glitter-laden wrapping paper and cards enter the system, they contribute to this non-recycled volume, making it harder for local authorities to meet their recycling targets.
So, to make sure that Borough residents know what they can and can’t recycle, we have produced a handy list to make it easy for you to recycle as much as possible.
Christmas waste and what bins to use:
- Plastic trays and packaging - go in your black bin.
- Gift wrap/ cards - plain and patterned 100% recyclable brown paper goes in your green bin. If it’s shiny, glittery or hard to tear, we can’t recycle it. Please place it in your black bin.
- Tin foil - rinse and take to your HWRC (tip) for recycling.
- Glass - 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 rinse out jam jars)
- Batteries - place in a clear bag on top of the bottles/jars in your glass recycling box.
- Christmas Trees - can be put out with garden waste in the New Year (cut into sections shorter than 4ft) or taken to your HWRC. (There are no tree drop off points this year.)
- Food waste - all bones, uncooked food and leftovers can go in your brown food waste bin. Just wrap it in newspaper or use biodegradable bags.