This year, some Christmas waste collections have changed which means City of York Council will collect waste and recycling the day before households’ receive their normal collection day.
To look up collection days visit the council website.
| If your normal collection day is… | Your bin will be collected on… |
| Monday 21 | Saturday 19 |
| Tuesday 22 | Monday 21 |
| Wednesday 23 | Tuesday 22 |
| Thursday 24 Christmas Eve | Wednesday 23 |
| Christmas DayFriday 25 | Christmas EveThursday 24 |
| Monday 28 | No change |
| Tuesday 29 | No change |
| Wednesday 30 | No change |
| Thursday 31New Year’s Eve | No change |
| Friday 1 January New Year’s Day | Saturday 2 January |
Residents can chop up their Christmas tree and wreaths (please remove all decorations, bows and ribbons) and place them in garden waste bin. These will be taken away when garden waste collections resume again in April.
Real Christmas trees and wreaths can also be taken to recycling sites at Hazel Court HWRC or Towthorpe HWRC. Please note that both sites are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
Extra festive recycling will be collected too including greeting cards, paper, wrapping paper (non foil), cardboard (please break down), plastic bottles, tins or glass.
All residents need to do is correctly sort them and place them in separate untied clear bags or open boxes of a similar size to a recycling box and put out with their recycling, or simply take them to a recycling site.
Full details of how to present extra items can be found here including what to do if you have more items than fit inside each recycling box can be found on the council website.
It’s important that bins or boxes are presented by 7am on the day of collections, but no earlier than 7pm the evening before.
Residents who live in the city centre and have their recycling collected by St Nick’s have been sent a festive newsletter advising their service changes (Fri 25 Dec moving to Mon 28, Friday 1 Jan moving to Mon 4).
