LEICESTER City Council will be making changes to its regular waste and recycling collection days over the two weeks of Christmas and New Year.
Most collections will take place a day earlier than normal over the festive fortnight, except for households that have their usual collection day on a Friday.
This means that the regular Tuesday collections due on 23 and 30 December will move forward to Monday 22 and 29 December.
The regular Wednesday collections (24 & 31 Dec) will take place on Tuesday 23 and 30 December, and Thursday collections due on Christmas Day (25 Dec) and New Year’s day (1 Jan) will both move forward one day to Wednesday 24 and 31 December.
The usual Friday collection due on Boxing Day (26 Dec) will be collected a day later than usual, on Saturday 27 December.
All household waste and recycle collections return to normal from Friday 2 January 2026.
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.
Electrical items, particularly those containing rechargeable batteries, should be taken to a recycling centre to be disposed of safely.
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 close early, at 2pm, on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
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