Archived press release

Date Published: 18/12/07

Aylesbury Vale District Council is urging local residents to recycle as much as possible during the festive period. With households producing tonnes of wrapping paper, Christmas cards, cardboard and drinks bottles, a lot of additional waste is pr...

Aylesbury Vale District Council is urging local residents to recycle as much as possible during the festive period.

With households producing tonnes of wrapping paper, Christmas cards, cardboard and drinks bottles, a lot of additional waste is produced – much of which can be recycled.

From the Christmas preparations to cleaning up in the New Year, there are plenty of ways everyone can do their bit to reduce waste and recycle more.

The council’s recycling baskets can be filled with newspapers and magazines, plastic bottles and steel or aluminium food and drink cans. Most properties also have a box for glass recycling.

Residents are being urged to use bring bank sites, which are situated across Aylesbury Vale, if they have too much recyclable waste to fit in the recycling baskets or boxes.

Household waste sites at Rabans Close, Rabans Lane, Aylesbury and Yonder Slade, Ring Road Industrial Estate in Buckingham will remain open except on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Residents will be able to recycle their real Christmas trees at these sites, along with other festive recycling such as cardboard, cans and glass.

Residents in Buckingham and Winslow who are taking part in the council’s green waste trial will be able to use their brown bin to recycle their real Christmas tree. Some garden centres also shred Christmas trees.

Christmas cards should be taken along to shops like WH Smith and Tesco, as they can’t go in the paper recycling box or brown bin. Christmas wrapping paper cannot be recycled or composted either, because of sticky tape, glitter and foil.

Councillor Sir Beville Stanier, Cabinet Member for Environment and Health, said: “Christmas time produces lots of extra waste and it is important that we all do our bit to reduce and recycle as much of it as possible. We must learn to look after our natural resources in a more responsible way and recycling forms a key part of that responsibility. The way that residents act now will play a part in preserving our resources for future generations.”

Due to the days on which Christmas/New Year bank holidays fall this year, it is necessary to make some changes to the normal refuse and recycling collection arrangements. The revised refuse and recycling collections are as follows:

Normal collection day                        Revised collection day
Monday 24 December                       Monday 24 December
Tuesday 25 December                     Thursday 27 December
Wednesday 26 December               Friday 28 December
Thursday 27 December                   Saturday 29 December
Friday 28 December                         Monday 31 December
Monday 31 December                      Wednesday 2 January
Tuesday 1 January                           Thursday 3 January
Wednesday 2 January                     Friday 4 January
Thursday 3 January                         Saturday 5 January
Friday 4 January                               Monday 7 January
Monday 7 January                            Tuesday 8 January
Tuesday 8 January                          Wednesday 9 January
Wednesday 9 January                    Thursday 10 January
Thursday 10 January                       Friday 11 January
Friday 11 January                            Saturday 12 January
 
Residents are being asked to ensure that all refuse and recycling is placed out by 6.30am on the correct days. All collections return to normal from Monday 14 January 2008.

Bin hangers outlining the changes are being sent to every home in the district. The revised collection dates are also on the council’s website at www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/refuse

If the collections are seriously delayed for any reason, the council will publish information on its website. For further information about refuse and recycling collections, please call 01296 585510.