03 December 2018

Landfill is not on Council Christmas wish list this year arrangements for festive recycling and waste collections

Aberdeenshire Council hopes residents can help it make savings this Christmas by making better use of available recycling services, avoiding sending items to landfill unnecessarily.

Households create more waste at this time of year as a result of buying excess food, wrapping paper, cards and possibly even their Christmas tree.

Residents are encouraged to reuse leftover turkey and veggies, or to recycle them in their food caddies, collected from homes every week.

Most types of wrapping paper, cardboard, non-glittery Christmas cards, and many other items can all be put in residents’ blue-lidded kerbside bins, picked up fortnightly.
 
Many can be turned into new products, instead of rotting away for years in landfill.

Real Christmas trees and large items of cardboard packaging can be taken to recycling centres.

Festive recycling tips will be published on the council’s social media channels to help householders ensure they make the most of their Christmas materials.

Recycling and waste arrangements at Christmas

Collections due on Tuesday, December 25 will be collected a few days earlier on Saturday, December 22. There will be no changes for collections due on Wednesday, December 26.
Collections due on Tuesday, January 1 will be collected a few days earlier on Saturday, December 29. There will be no changes for collections due on Wednesday, January 2.
If for any reason crews are unable to collect bins on any of these days they will attempt to make a collection the following day.

Check your scheduled collection date on the council’s website: http://bit.ly/BinCollections

To see the materials you can recycle at home using our recycling services, visit: http://bit.ly/ShireRecyclables

The council’s network of recycling centres will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and Wednesday, January 2. Sites normally open on Mondays will close at 3pm on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. For more information, see: http://bit.ly/AbshireHWRCs

To request an additional food caddy or blue-lidded wheeled bin, call 03456 081207, email waste@aberdeenshire.gov.uk or go to: http://bit.ly/Additionalbins