Refuse & Recycling

Christmas Information

Over the Christmas period, there will be scheduled changes to bin collections:

  • Tuesday 23rd December 2025 will take place on Saturday 20th December 2025
  • Wednesday 24th December 2025 will take place on Tuesday 23rd December 2025
  • Thursday 25th December 2025 will take place on Wednesday 24th December 2025
  • Friday 26th December 2025 will take place on Saturday 27th December 2025
  • Tuesday 30th December 2025 - No change
  • Wednesday 31st December 2025 - No change
  • Thursday 1st January 2026 will take place on Friday 2nd January 2026
  • Friday 2nd January 2026 will take place on Saturday 3rd January 2026
  • No brown bin collections from Tuesday 23rd December 2025 to Friday 2nd January 2026
  • Garden Waste collections will be suspended from Tuesday 23rd December 2025 to Friday 2nd January 2026.
  • PLEASE NOTE: Some revised collection days will be earlier than their usual date.

Tis the season to recycle as much of your Christmas waste as possible to prevent it going to landfill.

Keep any wrapping paper from Christmas morning and put it out for recycling in your green bin, apart from foil wrapping paper which cannot be recycled. The easy way for you to check if your wrapping paper can be recycled or not is by doing the 'scrunch test'. If it stays in a ball, it is paper and can be recycled in your green bin. If it bounces back, it will have metallised plastic film in it so please put in your grey bin.

We can recycle your Christmas cards, just pop them out for collection in your green bin. We cannot recycle cards made with foil, plastic, glitter, or battery-operated cards so place these in your grey general waste bin.

At this time of year you might have more cardboard, paper, plastics and cans/bottles than usual to recycle. Here are some tips to help you maximise the space in your recycling bins;

  • Crush cans
  • Squeeze the air out of plastic bottles
  • Flatten cardboard
  • Keep paper flat

Don’t forget you can also take any extra waste or recycling to your nearest household waste recycling centre, who will be happy to take it off your hands. Visit Lancashire County Council (external link) for opening times for our recycling centres.

Residents in West Lancashire can put clean plastic pots, tubs and trays in their recycling bins at home, along with the plastic bottles, which were already being collected. It means that many more items, including the large plastic tubs containing assorted sweets, can now be recycled.