THERE will be changes to the festive waste collection schedule in Cheshire West this year.

Wrapping paper, festive food, drinks, cards and decorations often mean a rapid increase in the amount of rubbish we have to throw away, make sure collection dates don’t catch you out this Christmas.

If you would ordinarily receive a collection of waste or recycling on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, or New Years Day, then those days will change as follows:

  • Wednesday, December 25, revised collection date: Saturday, December 21.
  • Thursday, December 26, revised collection date: Saturday, December 28.
  • Wednesday, January 1, revised collection date: Saturday, December 4.

More food waste is collected over the Christmas period than at any other time of the year. A weekly collection of food waste recycling is available to almost all homes in the area.

If you wish to recycle your food waste this year, contact the Council to find out more about their weekly kerbside service.

This service uses anaerobic digestion to break down various kinds of food waste, including turkey giblets, fish skins and bones, pet food, plate scrapings and more.

Excessive recycling

If you find yourself with more than normal to throw away, you may present it securely by the side of your bin/box to be collected on the same day as your other recycling containers.

Please remember that foil wrapping paper, or paper and cards with glitter on them cannot be recycled.

Real Christmas trees

Christmas trees can be taken for reuse to the following sites any time during January 2024:

  • Hooton Golf Club, Chester Road, Hooton, Ellesmere Port, CH66 1QF
  • Whitby Park, Stanney Lane Ellesmere Port, CH65 9AQ
  • Stanney Fields Park, Hinderton Road, Neston, CH64 9PE
  • Westminster Park, Hough Green, Chester, CH4 8JW
  • Marbury Park, Marbury Lane, CW9 6AP
  • Castle Park, Fountain Lane, Frodsham, WA6 6SA
  • Knights Grange Sports Complex, Winsford, CW7 2PT

Signage will be at all sites to advise where to place the Christmas trees which will be chipped and used to mulch existing shrub-beds throughout the borough by the Council’s StreetCare Service. The trees will need to be delivered with no decorations or lights on them.

Trees can also be taken to any Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs).