Bin collections over Christmas and the New Year

View your 2024/25 waste and recycling calendar

When and where to put your bins out

To ensure your rubbish and recycling can be safely and easily collected please:

• Place your waste and recycling on the boundary of your property by 7.00am on your collection day, closest to where the collection vehicle passes.
• don’t put out your waste and recycling earlier than 5.00pm the day before your collection day.
• Your bins or sacks (if you have been allocated recycling sacks) should be put at the boundary of your property, or a point agreed by a waste officer.
• If your property has been allocated sacks, tie up all rubbish and recycling bags.
• Rinse out any food and drink containers before you put them into the  blue bin or blue recycling sack.
• Breakdown cardboard and place it inside the red lid bin or red recycling sack. If it is too big please take to your local Household Waste Recycling Centre
• If you are on a wheelie bin collection, don’t put loose items, or sacks out for collection, as it won’t be collected.
• if your wheelie bins or recycling sacks  contain the wrong items, it may not be collected.

Collection vehicles

There are three different vehicles that collect waste from your property:

• one for your black wheelie bin (for waste that can't be recycled).
• another for your recycling bin, either blue or red depending on the week (blue for glass, metal and plastic, red for paper and cardboard).
• a third for your green wheelie bin or 23l caddy (for food and garden waste).