Changes to waste and recycling over Christmas 2021

As Christmas draws closer, Bridgend County Borough Council and its waste partners Kier have confirmed what changes will be made to recycling and rubbish collections over the festive period.

Collections will continue as normal up to and including Christmas Eve. From Monday 27 December to Thursday 30 December, collections will take place one day later than your normal collection date. Waste that is due to be collected on Friday 31 December will be picked up on Sunday, 2 January.

Waste collections will return to normal service from Monday 3 January 2022 with no changes to the day recycling containers or refuse sacks are collected.

While residents are usually restricted to filling two blue waste bags each fortnight, homes can put out one extra waste bag for their first refuse collection after Christmas Day to help accommodate the additional rubbish accumulated over the festive season.

Kier will have an additional vehicle out over Christmas to collect extra cardboard. If yours isn’t collected with your other recycling, the crew will be around later in the day to pick it up.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the residents of Bridgend County Borough for their continued efforts with recycling this year.

While most festive items can be recycled, there are some materials that shouldn’t be put out with your recycling. These include wrapping paper, black plastic, cellophane wrap, bubble wrap and polystyrene.

All of your Christmas dinner peelings, including the turkey carcass, can go out in your brown food container, paper envelopes go in your white recycling sack, clean foil goes in your blue recycling sack. You can take your Christmas tree to one of our local community recycling centres.

Deputy Leader Hywel Williams

More Christmas recycling reminders:

• Polystyrene cannot be taken for recycling at the kerbside, so must be put in your blue waste bag instead for the refuse collection or take it to your nearest household recycling centre.
• Our recycling centres at Brynmenyn, Tythegston and Maesteg will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day but will be open on all other days as normal from 9am-4pm.
• Real Christmas trees can be recycled at our three household recycling centres and can also be taken to the Waterton Depot where tress can be dropped off from Tuesday 4 January onwards.
• If someone in your home is showing coronavirus symptoms, double bag their tissues and set them aside for 72 hours before putting them in your blue waste bag. Tissues, kitchen roll, toilet paper or wipes should not be placed in your recycling bags or public litter bins in order to keep both residents and Kier collection crews safe