Bins and waste collections - check bin collection days

Waste services over Christmas and New Year

Every year during Christmas and New Year, there are changes to your waste services. This includes adjustments to the days your bins are collected and the opening times of our recycling centres, to accommodate for bank holidays. We also provide a collection service for your real Christmas trees, once the festivities are over.

Christmas (2024) and New Year (2025) bin timetable

Please put your wheelie bin or bag out by 7am on your revised collection dates. You can also download a paper copy of the timetable to remind yourself of the changes. You'll be back to your usual collection day from Monday, 6 January 2025.

Check your holiday bin collection schedule

Holiday bin collection schedule

Select your usual waste collection day to view the changes over Christmas and the New Year period.

Please note that the postcode checker for bin collection days below does not reflect changes to Christmas (2024) and New Year (2025) bin timetables - this will be updated on 24 December

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Garden waste collection winter break

If you're a subscriber, please note that garden waste collections will pause for their annual 12-week break from Monday, 2 December 2024, to Friday, 21 February 2025 (inclusive).

Final collections will depend on where you live and will happen during the week of Monday, 18 November or Monday, 25 November.

Please disregard any garden waste collection dates shown after 2 December. All dates up to 2 December are correct and will be your final garden waste collections for the year.