Recycling collections to resume Monday 15 December
Friday, 12 December 2025
We would like to thank residents for their patience and understanding during a brief suspension of dry recycling collections.
Our contractor, which treated recycling waste, suspended its service with extremely short notice, after asking us and taxpayers to pick up the millions of pounds of additional cost, after the contractor suffered a fire at its facility. The short notice left us with no time to make alternative arrangements and needing to temporarily pause collections from Monday, 8 December 2025.
Our officers have been working at breakneck speed to put alternative arrangements in place, using their own back-up plans.
Without these speedy contingency plans in place, a re-tender of such a large contract would have taken months.
Despite the inconvenience and disruption to residents, securing a new contractor is the better long-term option for the public.
Councillor Zerny, Leader of Central Bedfordshire Council, said:
I am extremely grateful to residents for their patience during this disruption. I am delighted the council has managed to put a new contractor in place so quickly and is able to announce the resumption of recycling collections.
Extra weekend collections have been arranged to ensure that by the end of Christmas week, every household will have had at least one recycling collection since the resumption of service on Monday.
Read the latest advice if your bins were not collected during the 5 days, 8 December to 12 December. All will receive a collection by 27 December.
Residents are encouraged to check Christmas collections online because their next collection may be on a different day to normal over Christmas.