Christmas and new year recycling & rubbish collection dates 2018/19
Your collection days are changing over Christmas, so please put your rubbish and recycling out on:
Usual day | Collected on… |
Monday 24 December | Monday 24 December |
Tuesday 25 December | Thursday 27 December |
Wednesday 26 December | Friday 28 December |
Thursday 27 December | Saturday 29 December |
Friday 28 December | Monday 31 December |
Monday 31 December | Wednesday 2 January |
Tuesday 1 January | Thursday 3 January |
Wednesday 2 January | Friday 4 January |
Thursday 3 January | Saturday 5 January |
Friday 4 January | Monday 7 January |
Monday 7 January | Tuesday 8 January |
Tuesday 8 January | Wednesday 9 January |
Wednesday 9 January | Thursday 10 January |
Thursday 10 January | Friday 11 January |
Friday 11 January | Saturday 12 January |
Download the Christmas recycling and rubbish collection dates (PDF 62KB)
If we miss you, please leave your recycling and rubbish out and we'll pick it up as soon as we can.
There are no garden waste collections between Monday 24 December and Friday 4 January. Collections start again on usual days from Monday 7 January.
Collections return to your usual days from Monday 14 January 2019.
Check your collection days for 2019
Recycle this Christmas!
Christmas trees
Christmas tree recycling sites across the city will be open between Thursday 27 December and Friday 11 January.
Find your nearest Christmas tree recycling site.
Food and drink
Plastic bottles can go straight in your recycling box or bin, washed and squashed. Rinsed drink cans and food tins can also go in your recycling, along with egg boxes, cardboard sleeves for food packaging and all tin biscuit boxes.
Please keep all glass bottles and jars in a separate recycling box or bag so glass doesn’t contaminate the other materials
Wrapping paper, cards and cardboard
Please only recycle wrapping paper - foil or paper and cards covered in glitter can’t be recycled. Flatten any cardboard boxes and paper bags to make space in your recycling bins and boxes.
Household waste recycling centres
You can also take your recycling to a community recycling point or one of the city’s two household recycling centres. The opening times over Christmas and New Year are:
- Christmas Eve - open until 1pm
- Christmas Day and Boxing Day - closed
- Thursday 27 December to Sunday 30 December - open normal hours
- New Years’ Eve - open until 1pm
- New Year's Day - closed
- Wednesday 2 January - reopening as normal
Thank you for recycling!