Local residents are being reminded to recycle and reuse during the festive period and put out their recycling and waste on the correct day over the public holidays.
Christmas recycling tips
- Recycle any broken or unwanted small electrical items, such as toasters or hair dryers, using the small electrical collection that the Council introduced last February. Put them in an untied carrier bag next to your green box on your collection day;
- Recycle your Christmas tree. Throughout January the Council will collect your real Christmas tree for free on your fortnightly garden waste collection day. Remember to cut-up if taller than 1.2 metres so it can fit in their vehicles;
- Recycle your greetings cards, wrapping paper and gift tags in your green box;
- Recycle your food waste, including bones, peelings, tea bags and egg shells. Make sure you use your food waste recycling collection for all food waste, so that they can recycle it into compost;
- Love Food, Hate Waste by buying the right amount of food you need and making sure your festive food gets eaten. The www.lovefoodhatewaste.com advent calendar offers all sorts of exciting suggestions.
Public holiday collection arrangements
- No recycling and waste collections on 25th, 26th December 2013 or 1st January 2014. The revised days are 28th December (for the 25th December) and 2nd and 4th January (for the 26th December and 1st January respectively);
- No garden waste and Christmas tree collections for two weeks between 23rd December and 6th January 2014 when normal collections will begin again;
- Recycling Centres will be closed on 25th, 26th December and 1st January. All other days open as normal.
The latest information about the Bank Holiday can be found on the Council’s website. As usual, people can contact Council Connect for any recycling containers via email: [email protected] or call 01225 39 40 41.
