Christmas 2024
Find any changes to the waste and recycling services that may affect you over the Christmas period
Excess waste
We'll collect extra waste on the first collection after Christmas. You can leave excess cardboard next to your bin at any time as long as it is flattened, clean, dry and loose.
We provide glass collection crates free of charge for kerbside collection of glass. You can request multiple crates and leave these out for collection if needed.
What can you recycle from Christmas?
Please don't put shredded paper in your recycling bin. We will take greetings cards and gift tags in recycling but only if these don't have glitter on, and please remove any sticky tape or ribbon. Also please make sure cards containing batteries don't end up in the bin.
Wrapping paper cannot be recycled, unless it is plain brown paper. Wrapping paper is often dyed, laminated and/or contains non-paper additives such as gold and silver-coloured shapes, glitter, and plastics, which cannot be recycled.
Don't forget to recycle your small electricals!
New electric toothbrush for Christmas? Hand blender finally given up? Don't forget you can leave small electricals out for collection with either of your bins. Place them in a plastic bag on top of the bin to be picked up.
If you received a new electrical item for Christmas please consider donating the old one if still working so it can be reused. Find out about our small electricals recycling service.
Bin collections
Bin collection days will be revised over the Christmas period. All collections will return to normal on Monday 13 January 2024. You can see the changes in the table below.
| Usual collection | Revised collection | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 25 December | Friday 27 December | Two days later |
| Thursday 26 December | Saturday 28 December | Two days later |
| Friday 27 December | Monday 30 December | Three days later |
| Monday 30 December | Tuesday 31 December | One day later |
| Tuesday 31 December | Thursday 2 January | Two days later |
| Wednesday 1 January | Friday 3 January | Two days later |
| Thursday 2 January | Saturday 4 January | Two days later |
| Friday 3 January | Monday 6 January | Three days later |
| Monday 6 January | Tuesday 7 January | One day later |
| Tuesday 7 January | Wednesday 8 January | One day later |
| Wednesday 8 January | Thursday 9 January | One day later |
| Thursday 9 January | Friday 10 January | One day later |
| Friday 10 January | Saturday 11 January | One day later |
Garden waste
There will be no garden waste collections from Saturday 21 December to Friday 3 January.
Please put your garden waste out on your normal collection day, not the amended waste collection day, from Monday 6 January.
Please note your collection may not be due until the week commencing Monday 13 January depending on your last collection before the break. You can double check your collection day using our bin calendar.
Christmas tree recycling
If you have a real Christmas tree and subscribe to our garden waste collection service, you can leave this out for recycling with your green waste collection when this restarts in January.
If you don't subscribe to the garden waste collection service we have seven free Christmas tree recycling points across the district. These will be available from Thursday 2 January to Friday 31 January 2025 and are located:
- Blackwater – Memorial Hall, Hawley Green (in car park at rear) GU17 9BW
- Crondall – Bowling Alley (on grass opposite junction with Pankridge Street) GU10 5RL
- Edenbrook – Country Park Car Park, The Brambles, Fleet GU51 5DW
- Ewshot – Village Hall, Tadpole Lane GU10 5BX
- Fleet – Church Road Car Park GU51 4ND
- Hook – Crossway Manor Car Park, Reading Road (opposite the White Hart Pub) RG27 9DU
- Odiham – Colt Hill (in lay-by at very end of London Road) RG29 1AL
- Yateley – Town Council Offices, Reading Road GU46 7RP
These points are for real Christmas trees only. Please don’t take artificial trees, decorations, or trees over 1.8 m (they can be cut in half).
The trees collected are then transformed into ProGrow Soil conditioner for gardens and wood chippings for our parks.