Waste and recycling collections this Christmas

Kerbside waste and recycling collections will take place on the usual days this Christmas season for most residents in Cheshire and Chester.

Residents who usually expect a collection on Monday 26 December should put their bins out two days earlier by 7am on Saturday 24 December as there are no collections on Boxing Day.

Calendars for 2023 are being delivered via Royal Mail and are taking longer than usual.

Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

On the other days during the holiday period, HWRCs in Winsford, Chester, Ellesmere Port Neston, Tattenhall, Frodsham and Northwich will be open at their usual times. Site opening times at: 

https://www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/news-and-views/recurring-events/christmas-and-new-year/changes-to-household-waste-recycling-centre-hours-christmas

Real Christmas trees can be taken for reuse to the following sites any time in January 2023:

Hooton Golf Club Chester Road, Hooton, Ellesmere Port, CH66 1QF; Whitby Park Stanney Lance Ellesmere Port, CH65 9 AQ; Stanney Fields Park Hinderton Road, Neston, CH64 9PE; Westminster Park Hough Green, Chester, CH4 8JW; Marbury Park, Marbury Lane, CW9 6AP; Castle Park Fountain Lane, Frodsham, WA6 6SA; Knights Grange Sports Complex Winsford, CW7 2PT.

Signage will advise where to place the trees, which will be chipped and used as mulch on existing shrub-beds in the borough by the Council’s StreetCare Service.

Decorations and lights should be removed from the trees. Just Helping is also raising money for local hospices by collecting and recycling real trees. To find the nearest hospice to arrange a collection: 

Register Tree (just-helping.org.uk)

The Council’s Customer Service Centre will be closed from 7pm on 23 December 2022, reopening on 28 December 2022. It will also be closed on 2 January 2023, reopening on 3 January 2023.

Garden waste collections ended on 5 December and will resume on 27 February 2023. Subscriptions can now be made for 2023 garden waste collections. To subscribe: 

cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/gardenwastecollection