Christmas Recycling Tips

Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council ceased to exist on April 1st 2009 when its services and responsibilities transferred to Cheshire East Council. This website is available for information only.

Managing your waste-line this Christmas

Christmas Collection Details | Festive Facts & Figures | Minimising Your Waste | Christmas Materials Recycling

Christmas produces even more rubbish than usual - around 30% more glass and cans are collected over this period, helping to generate more than 3 million tonnes of extra rubbish.

This is the equivalent to 400,000 double-decker buses stretching all the way from London to New York City!

The following information explains about collection services over the Christmas period and about how you can minimise your waste and recycle as much as possible.

Collection Information

Black (Refuse) Collection

Collections for black bins will take place as normal except:

25th December (Christmas Day) - rescheduled to Monday 29th December
26th December (Boxing Day) - rescheduled to Tuesday 30th December
1st January (New Year's Day) - rescheduled to Monday 5th January
2nd January - rescheduled to Tuesday 6th January

Silver (Recycling) Collection

Silver bins will not be collected on 25th, 26th December and 1st, 2nd January. Excess materials will be collected on the next scheduled collection. Please leave excess recyclable materials in a box of bag next to your bin.

Green (Paper Recycling) Collection

No collections on 25th, 26th December and 1st, 2nd January.

Collections have been rescheduled so please check your calendar for full details. Residents with a scheduled collection for 2nd January 2009 should have recently received new notification, if not please telephone 01270 537826.

Brown (Garden Waste) Collection

The garden waste service will be suspended over the Christmas period as from Friday 12th December and will recommence on Monday 12th January.

Christmas Tree Collection - Anyone wishing to recycle their Christmas trees can put them out at the front of their property on the next scheduled collection after the 12th January 2009 (regardless of whether they subscribe to the garden waste service). Check with your neighbours who are on the service for the next collection date.

Festive Facts & Figures

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• The amount of wrapping paper estimated to be thrown away in the UK at Christmas could stretch around the equator nine times or to the moon if each sheet was laid end to end.

• In the UK approximately 250 tonnes of Christmas trees that could have been recycled are simply thrown out after Christmas.

• An estimated 500 tonnes of Christmas tree lights are discarded in the UK over the Christmas period.

• Every year the UK throws out an estimated 4,500 tonnes of tin foil over the Christmas period. This is enough to cover around 1500 square miles - roughly the size of Suffolk!

• 13,350 tonnes of glass is thrown out in the UK during the festive season – from champagne and sherry bottles to mincemeat and cranberry sauce jars. Recycling all of them could save 4,200 tonnes of CO2 equivalent being produced, which is equivalent to taking around 1300 cars off the road for one year or to not taking around 630 around the world flights.

Minimising your waste this Christmas

When shopping or buying ingredients for your Christmas dinner, make sure you buy loose vegetables and avoid goods which involve unnecessary packaging.
Manage food portions carefully and only cook as much as you need. Visit www.lovefoodhatewaste.com for information about managing your food waste over Christmas, you may even find some ways of saving money too.
Make sure your fridge is at the correct temperature and that food is correctly stored to make sure it doesn't spoil.
Instead of traditional wrapping paper, why not try Furoshiki. It's a Japanese-style gift wrapping method that uses large pieces of cloth to create simple and elegant wrappings for gifts. You can find out more, including a video demonstration at the Recycle Now site.
It's a busy time of year for junk mail. Stop the junk mail at source by signing up to the Mailing Preference Service (MPS). Register online at: http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/ or call 020 7291 3310.
Before you take your items out to the recycling bin, see if there are any ways that you can re-use them. For example - your plastic containers and glass jars can be used for storing food items in the future.

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Recycling Collections

Don't forget you can put your Christmas Cards (not foil or heavily glittered), envelopes and your wrapping paper into your silver bin. You can also put your biscuit and sweet tins into the bin.

Your Christmas Cards can also be recycled for charity with the Woodland Trust, simply take your cards to the nearest WH Smith, Tesco, TK Maxx or Marks & Spencer between 2nd -31st January.

Home Composting

Think about composting your uncooked food waste such as vegetable peelings and even some of your paper and cardboard. Visit our home composting pages for more details.

Other Places to Recycle

You'll find plenty more opportunities to recycle at your closest recycling bank or at the Household Waste Recycling Centre on Pyms Lane. Try to stagger your visits to the recycling banks to help us keep them safe and empty.

If someone gives you a present that you don't want, think about either selling it or donate it to a local charity shop.

Recycle your old furniture and large electrical items (as long as they are in working condition). Contact Crewe Christian Concern who will collect your items where they will then be passed on to those in need or sold on as surplus.

If after following all of these tips, you do still have excess waste, please remember that we are unable to collect extra waste with your black bin so you will have to make your own arrangements for disposal at the Household Waste Recycling Centre.

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