RIBBLE VALLEY FESTIVE RECYCLING AND REFUSE COLLECTION

The changes are: Usual collection date (rearranged date) – Monday, December 23rd (Saturday 21st), Christmas Eve (Monday 23rd), Christmas Day (Tuesday 24th), Boxing Day (Friday 27th), Friday 27th (Saturday 28th), Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st (no change), New Year’s Day (Thursday 2nd), Thursday, January 2nd (Friday 3rd), Friday 3rd (Saturday 4th).

Normal refuse collection will resume the week beginning Monday, January 6.

Christmas wrap, cards and packaging can be recycled and put in your white sack for collection the weeks beginning December 23rd (if your paper is collected on a green bin week) or December 30th (if it is collected on a blue bin week).

Christmas trees should be chopped up and placed inside green bins from Monday, January 6, 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.

Please park your vehicles considerately, so that refuse collection wagons can access your street and manoeuvre safely.

And please respect refuse collection crews, who will be working flat out over the festive period.

Crews will be unable to return for missed collections, but will collect any excess refuse on your next collection day.

Further information is available from ribblevalley.gov.uk or 01200 425111.

I’m dreaming of a green Christmas:

• 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
• Over 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

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Ref: 121724.

Date: December 17 2024.

Further details for the press are available from Ribble Valley Borough Council’s communications unit on 01200 414483 or 07971 978766.