Derbyshire Dales council confirms changes to waste collection schedule over Christmas and New Year

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‘Tis the season for mountains of waste and recycling to be piling up in households everywhere, so Derbyshire Dales residents will be glad to know that collections will continue over Christmas and New Year but with one major change.

All waste and recycling collections in the district will be taking place one day later than usual in the weeks commencing December 26 and January 2.

This means crews from council contractor Serco will be working on Saturdays, December 31 and January 7 January to collect usual Friday rounds, and also on the replacement festive bank holiday, Tuesday, December 27, for Monday rounds.

Food waste collections will continue to happen weekly and recycling collections fortnightly, but all garden waste collections are suspended from Monday to Saturday, December 19-31 inclusive.

Derbyshire Dales residents have been warned that excess waste will not be collected over the Christmas period.

However, Dales residents who subscribe to the garden waste scheme will be able to recycle their real Christmas tree by placing it at the edge of their property on their allocated green/recycling day between Tuesday and Friday, January 3-27. Trees need to be cut down to no longer than five feet, with all decorations and pots removed

Residents should note that no additional household waste will be collected, so everything to be disposed of should be contained in the grey bin with the lid shut, or, for homes on a sack collection, in four standard-sized black sacks.

A spokesperson for the distirct council said: “Collection crews will take excess recycling but residents should limit the amount of household waste they put out. Additional recycling material should be left at the side of recycling containers, making sure it is easily identifiable and suitably contained.

“We recommend using transparent containers, such as stacker boxes, rather than black bags, so we can easily identify the contents, and ask that any excess card, paper and magazines are separated from other excess recycling. Cardboard must be flattened and broken down into smaller pieces no wider than 50 centimetres to fit in the recycling compartment of our trucks.”

Every household in the district should have received a Christmas and New Year collections timetable in the October issue of the council’s Dales Matters publication, but residents can also check the dates for their address at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/whenismycollection.

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