West Norfolk Council urges residents to check bin collection dates ahead of Christmas and New Year

Residents are being reminded to check when their waste and recycling collections will take place over Christmas and New Year.

Cllr Sandra Squire, borough council cabinet member for the environment and coastal, said: “Our collection crews work hard all year round and I thank them for what they do.

“The Christmas and New Year holidays are the busiest time of the year for domestic waste and recycling and I ask that residents do what they can to support our collection crews.

“Please can residents plan ahead for how they manage their waste and recycling over the holiday season.

“With Bank Holidays falling on Wednesday and Thursday for Christmas, along with another one the following Wednesday for New Year’s Day, there are some unavoidable delays for collection rounds and I recommend that people check when their bins will be collected.

"Please remember that you can put additional recycling in any clear bag and put it out with your green recycling bin for collection.

"Last year we introduced weekly small electrical and used battery collections. I urge our residents to take advantage of these additional services."

The borough council is also keen to remind residents that weekly food waste collections will continue each week.

This creates extra black bin space and is much more environmentally friendly.

Food waste from caddies is sent to an anaerobic digestor where the bags are stripped out, and the rotting waste then produces methane which is then burnt to produce clean electricity.

The remaining food waste is pasteurised before being used as fertiliser by farmers, reducing the need to put chemicals on the land.

Brown bin collections will continue to take place during the festive break.

Check on the borough council website to see when your collection will take place.

You can also dispose of any excess waste before Christmas by taking it to household waste recycling centres – check norfolk.gov.uk for locations, opening times and how to book entry.

As well as being published online at west-norfolk.gov.uk/yourbins, details about festive waste and recycling collections will be printed on the back pages of Your Local Paper on Tuesdays, December 24 and 31.

To report that your bin has not been emptied, search for 'missed bin' at west-norfolk.gov.uk or call 0330 1099220. Please report this within two days after the collection was due and before noon on the second day, the council has said.

There will be no collections on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.