Somerset waste collection changes this week

Somerset's kerbside collections – including clinical waste collections – are one day later for the rest of this week, including Friday collections on Saturday 5 January.

Kerbside services and garden waste collections will return to their usual schedule from Monday 7 January.

All recycling sites have today reverted to their usual timetable.

During 7-18 January, "treecycle" decoration-free real Christmas trees below 6ft by putting them out with your paid garden waste collections or by taking them to any recycling site for composting.

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If all else fails, put the tree out with your refuse for disposal in landfill.

Among Somerset Waste Partnership's top festive recycling tips:

• Help collection crews by spreading extra items over a couple of weeks or more and keeping materials separated in recycling boxes.
• It is best to save cards and wrapping paper for reuse. Otherwise, recycle these with cardboard, but not if printed on plastic or foil.
• Take large quantities of cardboard to recycling sites and combine the trip by taking other items, such as natural Christmas trees for composting.
• Include paper kitchen towel with food waste – including turkey carcasses – for recycling.
• Rinse bottles and cans, take tops off, ensure aerosols are empty, flatten card, scrunch up aluminium foil, and keep textiles dry in bags (not black sacks).

If you still have a fridge full of leftovers and a bulging rubbish bin, almost everything can be reused or recycled:

• Food – freeze or re-use leftovers; compost sprout and other peelings or recycle with other food waste.
• Cards and wrapping – save cards for gift-tags; reuse wrapping paper or recycle with card at the kerbside.
• Decorations – compost anything green, from mistletoe to your real tree.
• Unwanted gifts – give away to charity or through online networks, or sell them on.
• If you replaced TVs, white goods or furniture for Christmas, offer working items in good condition to Somerset's reuse groups.

For more on reuse and recycling, including all festive changes, check: www.somersetwaste.gov.uk.