Bracknell

Bracknell Refuse and recycling collections will be changing over the festive period due to the Christmas and New Year bank holidays.

At Christmas, Bracknell residents who would normally receive a collection on a Monday should place their refuse or recycling at the kerbside on Saturday, December 23, as there are no collections on Christmas Day. Other residents will have their refuse collected one day late - between Wednesday and Saturday.

All residents will have their refuse or recycling collected one day late after New Year’s Day - between Tuesday and Saturday.

All Bracknell households will receive a clear plastic bag for extra cardboard or wrapping paper which won’t fit in their kerbside box. This can be left at the kerbside with your other recyclables for collection. Please don’t separate recyclables with shopping bags.

Christmas trees will be collected with the normal garden waste collection from the kerbside but please don’t let them obstruct the pavement.

The Council will accept excess waste in black sacks at the kerbside with your first landfill collection after Christmas only. It is important that residents continue to recycle as much as reasonably possible.

Additional refuse and recycling can be taken to the Longshot Lane civic amenity site, Bracknell which is open from 8am to 6pm and is only closed on Christmas Day.

New figures show the total recycling in Bracknell Forest in October - the first month of the new alternate bin collection scheme - was a record 40 per cent.

Kerbside collections of cans and plastic and garden waste have more than doubled - compared to October last year - and there has been a substantial increase in the amount of card and paper recycled. The amount of refuse sent to landfill has dropped by 44 per cent from 2,613.5 tonnes to 1,820 tonnes.

Cllr Peter North, Executive Member for Bracknell Public Protection and Services, said: "Everyone has responded superbly to the challenge that faced us all. Recycling rates have gone through the roof and this should ensure that the huge Government fines that we were facing can be avoided.

"I am extremely grateful to everyone who has made this extra effort and in particular to those who have making this effort for so long already and set us all the example to follow.

”I wish you all a great time during the festive season but please watch out for the details of the Bank Holiday collection date changes and do not get caught out by them.”

Bracknell Forest Borough Council