Checking your bin day online and signing up for our bin reminder emails is a great way to stay up to date with your recycling, food waste and non-recyclable waste collections over the Christmas period.
Some households will see changes to their regular collection dates over the festive period, and this is a good way to keep on top of when you will need to put your containers out.
You can check your bin day here. You won’t need to sign in to check your bin day, and you can check for friends, family members and neighbours by simply typing in their postcode or street. (Festive tip – take a screen shot to share.)
It’s especially advisable to check over the Christmas period, when you are likely to see some changes to your usual collection pattern and during changeable winter weather conditions.
We recommend to stay up to date by signing up to receive our bin reminder emails. If you do this, you’ll get an email to remind you to put your bins out the day before your collection is due. It’s a good way for us to let you know about any changes that affect you as well.
So what will change?
Here’s a quick summary…
All households will get their recycling, food waste and non-recyclable waste (black/blue bins) emptied the week before Christmas (15-19 December).
There are no collections on…
- Thursday 25 December (Christmas Day)
- Friday 26 December (Boxing Day)
- Thursday 1 January (New Year’s Day)
Which means…
- If your usual collection was 25 or 26 December, your black/blue bins (non-recyclable waste) will be collected on 29 December (Monday) or 30 December (Tuesday) instead. Your food waste and recycling will be collected on 2 January.
- If your usual collection was 1 January your food waste and recycling will be collected on 2 January.
Check out this table for more detail…
| Date | Day(s) | What will be collected |
|---|---|---|
| 15–19 December | Monday–Friday | All households – recycling, food waste, non-recyclable waste (black/blue bin). |
| 22-24 December | Monday-Wednesday | Recycling, food waste, non-recyclable waste (black/blue bin). |
| 25 December | Thursday | No collection (affected residents will get two separate collections) *non-recyclable (black/blue bin) rearranged to Monday 29 December. *food waste and recycling rearranged to Friday 2 January. |
| 26 December | Friday | No collection (affected residents will get two separate collections) *non-recyclable (black/blue bin) rearranged to Tuesday 30 December. *food waste and recycling rearranged to Friday 2 January. |
| 29 December | Monday | Monday collection day residents will get their recycling and food waste collected. Thursday collection day residents will get their non-recyclable waste collected, rescheduled from 25 December. |
| 30 December | Tuesday | Tuesday collection day residents will get their recycling and food waste collected. Friday collection day residents will get their non-recyclable waste collected, rescheduled from 26 December. |
| 31 December | Wednesday | Recycling and food waste collections. |
| 1 January | Thursday | No collection (recycling and food waste rearranged to 2 January). |
| 2 January | Friday | Recycling and food waste collections (including recycling not collected from 25, 26 December and 1 January). |
| 5 – 9 January | Monday–Friday | All households – recycling, food waste, non-recyclable waste (black/blue bin). |
| 12 – 16 January | Monday–Friday | All households – recycling and food waste collections. |
Extra recycling
If your recycling boxes get full, you can leave any extra recyclables in solid containers next to your other recycling on your collection day and we’ll recycle the materials (leaving the containers behind for you to reuse again).
But if you do have extra recycling, please separate the materials as you usually would…for example, if you have extra plastic bottles and glass, please put the plastic in one container and the glass in a separate container.
Also, we will collect clean, flattened cardboard left by recycling containers if it is no larger in height or width than a standard issue blue sack. Larger boxes can be taken to any of the three household recycling centres
You can always order extra food caddies and recycling containers to be delivered or arrange to collect them from a recycling centre. This will help you to be prepared for extra materials often produced over the festive season.
Or you can tie a food liner to your kerbside caddy, and the crew will leave you a new roll!
The household recycling centres are open every day except Christmas Day and offer a wider range of recycling including coffee pods, electrical items, toys, batteries and cardboard.
Remember reuse!
The Nightingale House reuse shop is also open at Bryn Lane Recycling Centre with a variety of items which are for sale raising funds for the local charity.
Festive Tip: stock up on your food bags, make sure you have the containers, and sign up for the reminders – you may become the next binfluencer!
Reminder – reduced garden waste collections in winter months – Wrexham Council News
When are my bins collected? Check your bin day and sign up for reminders.
