DERBYSHIRE DALES CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR BIN COLLECTIONS

Derbyshire Dales District Council has announced its bin collections schedule for the Christmas and New Year period.

The most significant change is for Dales residents who usually get waste and recycling collections on Thursdays. As Christmas Day falls on a Thursday this year, their Christmas collection is brought forward to Saturday 20 December, while what would have been a New Year’s Day collection is a day later on Friday 2 January.

Usual Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday collections will remain unchanged over the festive period, while Friday collections will be one day later than usual.

This means the District Council's waste and recycling contractor Serco will be working on Saturdays 20 December, 27 December and 3 January to collect usual Friday rounds on those days.

Dales residents are asked to note that no additional household waste will be collected, so are advised to make sure all their household waste is contained in their grey bin with the lid shut, or, for homes on a sack collection, in four standard sized black sacks.

A District Council spokesperson said: “Collection crews will take excess recycling but residents should limit the amount of household waste they put out.

“Additional recycling material should be left at the side of recycling containers, making sure it is easily identifiable and suitably contained.

“We recommend using transparent containers, such as stacker boxes, rather than black bags, so we can easily identify the contents, and ask that any excess card, paper and magazines are separated from other excess recycling. Cardboard must be flattened and broken down into smaller pieces no wider than 0.5m to fit in the recycling compartment of our trucks.”

Food waste collections will continue to happen weekly and recycling collections fortnightly over the festive period.

To help prioritise household waste and recycling collections at this busy time of year, all garden waste collections are suspended from Monday 29 December to Friday 9 January inclusive.

However, Dales residents who subscribe to the District Council's garden waste scheme will be able to recycle their real Christmas tree by placing it at the edge of their property on their green/ recycling day between 12 January and 6 February. Trees need to be cut down to no longer than 5 feet, with all decorations and any pot removed.

Every household in the district received a Christmas and New Year collections timetable (see advert opposite) in the Dales Matters Autumn 2025 resident publication, and a collection calendar is also available to view online at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/whenismycollection