SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling and refuse collection date changes for Christmas period

PEOPLE have been advised that rubbish collections will take place a day later than normal over the Christmas and New Year period.

The Somerset Waste Partnership has issued its usual advice about changes to its collection services to cater for the Christmas holiday.

Collections will continue as normal from Monday, December 19, 2016, through to Friday, December 23, 2016.

But there will be changes from Monday, December 26, 2016, through to Friday, January 6, 2017.

All collections usually made from Monday, December 26, 2016, through to Friday, December 30, 2016, will be one day later – including Monday pickups on Bank Holiday, Tuesday, December 27, 2016, and the Friday pickups on Saturday, December 31, 2016.

All collections usually made from Monday, January 2, 2017, through to Friday, January 6, 2017, will be one day later – including Friday pickups on Saturday, January 7, 2016.

Usual collections will resume on Monday, January 9, 2017.

The revised collection days over the festive period will also apply to assisted and clinical waste collections.

Garden waste collections will NOT take place from Monday, December 26, 2016, through to Friday, January 6, 2017, and will resume from Monday, January 9, 2017, on usual days.

The Somerset Waster Partnership, meanwhile, has said that decoration-free natural Christmas trees under six-feet can be composted.

People can take them to their local recycling site or, if they pay for garden waste collections, put them out on the usual garden waste collection day from January 9, 2017.

Recycling centres will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, but will be open on all other days on their usual schedule.

The new measures at recycling sites including permits and access times will apply as usual over the festive season.

More information is available from www.somersetwaste.gov.uk/permits .

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