Holiday period recycling

Recycling and landfill waste collections will take place later than usual, for a period over Christmas and New Year between Tuesday 25 December 2012 to Saturday 12 January 2013.

Please ensure that you leave your landfill and recycling out for collection on the correct day as listed below, from 6.30am.

Starting from Tuesday 25 December:

If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Mondays—

Your revised collection dates are:

• Wednesday 2 January
• Tuesday 8 January

If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Tuesdays—

Your revised collection dates are:

• Thursday 27 December
• Thursday 3 January
• Wednesday 9 January

If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Wednesdays—

Your revised collection dates are:

• Friday 28 December
• Friday 4 January
• Thursday 10 January

If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Thursdays—

Your revised collection dates are:

• Saturday 29 December
• Saturday 5 January
• Friday 11 January

If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Fridays—

Your revised collection dates are:

• Monday 31 December
• Monday 7 January
• Saturday 12 January

Collections return to normal from Monday 14 January 2013.

Christmas trees will be collected on the same day as your landfill waste between Tuesday 8 January and Friday 18 January 2013. Just leave your tree next to your wheelie bin and we will take it off to be composted, only real trees please.

Alternatively, you can take your tree to be composted at the Villiers Road Household Reuse and Recycling Centre.

The Household Reuse and Recycling Centre (HRRC) at Villiers Road will be open from 9.00am to 4.00pm on all public holidays except on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. Public holidays, particularly in the spring, are always busy times so please take care to separate items for recycling before arriving at the site so that you can unload your vehicle as quickly as possible. Before you leave, you can check the length of the queue to the site by viewing the tip cam:

If you are visiting the HRRC in a van, other vehicles over 1.75m (6ft) in height or a vehicle with a trailer, access times are restricted year round to: