Christmas 2025 collection dates will be posted here soon.
This Christmas and New Year, your rubbish collection days will be different - please check your updated schedule.
We’ll be posting a new collection calendar to every household soon. Please check it carefully to see when your recycling and rubbish will be collected over Christmas and New Year.
You can also check and download your collection calendar on the My Area page. We’ll be updating it soon with the Christmas and 2026 collection dates.
Visit My area Clinical waste collections
If your clinical waste collection is due on Christmas Day or Boxing Day, we’ll contact you directly to rearrange it.
Food waste
Don’t forget - we collect food waste separately from your rubbish.
Things like turkey bones, vegetable peelings and leftovers can go in your food waste caddy. They’ll be recycled into fertiliser and energy to help power homes.
Food waste can really build up over Christmas, so try to plan ahead and only buy what you’ll use. It’s a great way to cut down on waste and save money too.
If you fill your outdoor food caddy over the festive period, we can collect extra food waste. Please put any extra food waste in a plastic bag or liner and put it out on top of your collection caddy on the day we collect your food waste.
Find out more about food waste collections
Recycling
Christmas cards, envelopes and wrapping paper are recycled in your orange recycling bag. Please remove decorations like ribbon, foil, glitter, plastic film, tinsel and bubble wrap as these cannot be recycled.
What to do if you have more recycling than you can fit in your bags or box
- Extra cardboard: please flatten, tie it into a bundle and leave out with the rest of your recycling
- Extra plastics, cans and tins: please put them in a carrier bag and leave with the rest of your recycling
- Extra paper: please put it in a carrier bag and leave out with the rest of your recycling
- You can also take extra recycling to your local Household Waste and Recycling Centre
If you regularly have more recycling than you can fit in your recycling bags and boxes, you can order more using the link below.
Order recycling bags, boxes and food waste caddies
Don’t put batteries out for collection
You should never throw batteries in your rubbish bin. They have started fires in our collection vehicles.
Instead you should:
- Reduce: where possible, choose rechargeable devices that don’t need batteries
- Recharge: consider using rechargeable batteries instead of single use ones
- Recycle: collect batteries in a container at home and, once full, take to a HWRC or supermarket battery recycling point
Find a battery recycling point near you
Christmas trees
We’ll only collect Christmas trees from people who subscribe to our garden waste collection service. Please put your tree out beside your bin or bag on your garden waste collection day.
Some local charities collect trees, please check your usual community networks.
You can also take Christmas trees to our Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs).
Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs)
HWRCs will be open from 9am to 4pm throughout the festive period except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
Commercial waste
It’s against the law for businesses including holiday lets to use household rubbish and recycling services to dispose of their commercial waste. If you run a holiday let, you must pay a licensed waste carrier to collect and dispose of your commerical waste.
The law applies to people who rent all or part of their home out for some or all of the year as holiday accommodation.
Please visit our Commercial Waste Services page for more information.