LEICESTER City Council will be making changes to its regular waste and recycling collection days due the Christmas and New Year's bank holidays.
All regular collections during Christmas week will be subject to change.
The regular Tuesday collection on 24 December will take place one day earlier on Monday 23 December.
The regular Wednesday collection due on Christmas day (25 Dec) will also be brought forward by one day to Tuesday 24 December.
Collections due to take place on Thursday (26 Dec) and Friday (27 Dec) will take place one day later than normal, on Friday (27 Dec) and Saturday (28 Dec).
There will be no change to the collection due to take place on New Year’s Eve (31 Dec).
However, there will be no collections made on Wednesday 1 January, due to the New Year’s Day bank holiday. All subsequent collections during that week will take place one day later than normal, including the normal Friday collection which will move to Saturday 4 January.
Waste and recycling collections will return to normal from Tuesday 7 January 2024.
Full details of all changes to collection days are shown below:
All bins and orange bags should be put out for collection by 7am on the correct day.
Households can put out as many orange recycling bags as they need for their recyclable waste. Festive items like sweet and biscuit tins and tubs, glass bottles and jars, cardboard boxes, non-metallic wrapping paper and glitter-free greetings cards can all be bagged for collection as recycling.
There will also be some changes to the opening hours at the city’s two waste and recycling centres over the holiday period.
Both the Gypsum Close and Freemen’s Common sites will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. The centres will be open from 8am until 2pm on Christmas Eve (24 Dec) and New Year's Eve (31 Dec), and from 8am until 6pm at all other times.
Details of opening times for the Gypsum Close trade recycling centre will be available on the council’s website.
For more information visit www.leicester.gov.uk/recycling