Everyone’s bin collection day will change this Christmas
Waste collections will change for everyone in North Kesteven during the two weeks over Christmas and New Year, with bins either collected earlier or later depending on your usual bin day.
In the week leading up to Christmas, if you would normally expect your black bin to be collected on Monday 22 December, it will be collected sooner, on Saturday 20 December.
For normal collection days on Tuesday 23, Wednesday 24 or Thursday 25 December, they will be collected one day sooner.
If your normal collection would be Friday 26 December, it will be collected one day later, on Saturday 27 December.
After Christmas, green-lidded bin collections on Monday 29, Tuesday 30 or Wednesday 31 December will all be collected as normal.
If your collection would normally be on Thursday 1 January or Friday 2 January, they will instead be collected one day later.
Collections all return to their usual days from Monday January 5, which will be a black bin collection week again.
As always, please remember to have your bins out by 6.30am on the relevant collection day.
You can find out more about Christmas waste, including a handy run-down of how to dispose of specific Christmas items, at https://www.n-kesteven.gov.uk/christmaswaste
No side waste will be collected, however breaking down boxes and squashing plastic bottles can help maximise space in your bins. Any surplus waste or recycling that will not fit can be taken to your local household waste recycling centre (see Lincolnshire County Council's webpage at www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/recycling-waste/find-recycling-centre) or held back for a future collection. Household waste recycling centres (HWRCs) are open as usual over Christmas and New Year, apart from the bank holidays on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
Batteries or electronics must never go in your household bins, as they can cause fires. Please take them instead to your local Household Waste Recycling Centre. Batteries can also be dropped off at collection points in shops. If you’re ever unsure which bin an item can go in, leave it out and check it out using the Council’s Right Thing Right Bin leaflet or A-Z of Recycling at www.n-kesteven.gov.uk/waste
You can also follow us on social media @northkestevendc to see helpful hints and tips across the festive period, and sign up for waste e-newsletters on our website at www.n-kesteven.gov.uk/stayconnected
Some Christmas-specific tips:
Shiny or foil-type wrapping paper and glittery and embellished cards, for example, cannot be recycled in your bins at home. Shiny wrapping paper can instead be turned into decorations for next year, and cards reused to make gift tags at home or donated at any charity collection points.
If not, they should go in the black bin only along with food and general waste, dirty tin foil, plastic bags and wrappers to be made into electricity in North Hykeham.
Real Christmas trees can be chopped up and placed in garden waste bins, or taken to the HWRC. Alternatively, St Barnabas Hospice charity is running a tree collection service for a small fee.
Artificial Christmas trees can be donated to charity if in good condition, or taken to the HWRC.
North Kesteven garden waste customers are also reminded that brown bin collections reduce in December and January. Do check your collection calendar or the find my bin day webpage.