All about your bins this Christmas and New Year

Christmas waste, recycling and garden waste collection schedule

The Christmas and New Year holidays are the busiest time of the year for domestic waste and recycling and Cllr Sandra Squire who is the Borough Council Cabinet member for the Environment and Coastal asks that residents do what they can to support the collection crews. She said: “Please can residents plan ahead for how they manage their waste and recycling over the holiday season. With Bank Holidays falling on Wednesday and Thursday for Christmas, along with another one the following Wednesday for New Years Day, there are some unavoidable delays for collection rounds and I recommend that people check when their bins will be collected.

Schedule published by the Borough Council on their website:

"Please remember that you can put additional recycling in any clear bag and put it out with your green recycling bin for collection.

"Last year we introduced weekly small electrical and used battery collections. I urge our residents to take advantage of these additional services."

The borough council is also keen to remind residents that weekly food waste collections will continue each week. This creates extra black bin space and is much more environmentally friendly.

Food waste from caddies is sent to an anaerobic digester where the bags are stripped out, and the rotting waste then produces methane which is then burnt to produce clean electricity. The remaining food waste is pasteurised before being used as fertiliser by farmers, reducing the need to put chemicals on the land.

From week commencing 13th January collections revert to the usual days.