Waste collection dates in the Wellington area are changing because of the New Year holiday.
The revised schedule for recycling and rubbish is below.
Everyone can check their collection days, for now and the rest of the year, using the My Collection Day feature on the somersetwaste.gov.uk website.
Dates can be downloaded for printing or downloaded straight into the calendar on your laptop or mobile device.
In the event of any disruption to collections at this busy time of year, rubbish collections will be prioritised. The most up to date information will be available on the on the SWP website somersetwaste.gov.uk via the home page.
As usual, garden waste collections do not take place over the festive fortnight but are scheduled start again in the week beginning January 10th.
Residents must park responsibly so crews and trucks have the access they need to make all their collections. This is always important over the festive period, but even more so with more people working from home.
Remember – if recycling crews cannot get through, fire engines will struggle and maybe other emergency services too.
The recycling centre at Poole is not open today (New Year’s Day) but will then be open on its usual winter hours.
Now is also the time to think about how to best dispose of your real Christmas tree.
The greenest way is to chip it and compost it at home if you can or use it to attract wildlife in your garden.
Decoration-free trees up to six feet tall and with trunk diameter of no more than six inches can be taken to recycling sites or be collected if you are a garden waste service subscriber.
All 16 recycling sites can take trees in the garden waste skip. They will be composted to produce the soil conditioner.
Garden waste service subscribers can leave their tree next to their green bin ready for their first collection in 2022.
Some charities offer kerbside collections in return for a donation, including St Margaret’s Hospice Care in the Wellington area.
Collections must be booked in advance online just-helping.org.uk/register-tree
For lots of information on how to reduce, reuse and recycle, visit the Somerset website somersetwaste.gov.uk/festive