Changes to bin collections in the Ribble Valley announced for Christmas and New Year period
Households in the Ribble Valley are being advised of changes bin collections over the festive period.
The changes are as follows with the usual collection date then rearranged date in brackets:
– Monday, December 22 (Saturday 20),
- Tuesday 23 (Monday 22)
- Christmas Eve (Tuesday 23)
- Christmas Day (Wednesday 24)
- Boxing Day (Saturday 27)
- Monday 29, Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 (no change)
- New Year’s Day (Friday 2)
- Friday 2 (Saturday 3).
Normal refuse collection will resume the week beginning Monday, January 5.
Christmas wrap, cards and packaging can be recycled and put in your white sack for collection the weeks beginning December 22 (if your paper is collected on a green bin week) or December 29 (if it is collected on a blue bin week).
Christmas trees should be chopped up and placed inside green bins from Monday, January 5, or if you are not on the green bin service tied up and left with burgundy bins or lilac sacks. They can also be taken to the household waste recycling centres in Clitheroe and Longridge.
The council has asked peopleto park considerately, so that refuse collection wagons have the access they need, and can manoeuvre safely.
They said that crews will be unable to return for missed collections, but will collect any excess refuse on your next collection day.
Further information is available at ribblevalley.gov.uk or 01200 425111.
Christmas recycling stats:
- Britons will eat more than 175million mince pies this Christmas – their foil cases can be recycled
- More than 19,000 tonnes of turkey will be consumed over Christmas, much of it packaged in recyclable foil trays
- Over 500million canned drinks will be consumed over Christmas – recycling one aluminium drink can save enough energy to run a set of Christmas tree lights for two hours
- The UK will consume over five million jars of mincemeat, 12 million jars of pickles and six million jars of cranberries – recycling the jars can save enough energy to boil the water for 60million cups of tea
- More than 83 square kilometres of wrapping paper will be thrown away in the UK over Christmas, enough to gift wrap Hyde Park 33 times – wrapping paper can be shredded, recycled and even used to clean windows.