Your guide to recycling Christmas waste

Recycling at Christmas

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Clean and empty plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays (no lids)

Clean and empty glass bottles and jars (no lids)

Clean and dry paper and card (not shredded)

Clean and empty food and drink cartons

Don’t forget to recycle the following items in your clear recycling bag/recycling bank along with any wrapping paper (but not foil based wrapping paper) and Christmas cards: If you have extra cardboard, please flatten it and place it beside your recycling bag (or inside your recycling bank) when you put it out for collection.Make sure you recycle:

Clean and empty tins, cans and empty aerosols (no lids)

Household batteries can be recycled at all six Council libraries within the borough and at the Council Offices, Pembroke Road and the Market Office, Tavistock Road. Please see www.rbkc.gov.uk or ring Streetline on 020 7361 3001 for more information. Batteries and fluorescent lightbulbs can be recycled at Ryness stores (fluorescent lightbulbs must be intact i.e. not smashed). For more information visit www.ryness.co.uk

Recycling your Christmas treeLast year residents recycled over 84 tonnes of Christmas trees for composting!

This year the Council’s Christmas tree composting scheme is running again. From Monday 4 to Monday 18 January 2016 the Council will collect used Christmas trees to be turned into compost.

The Christmas tree collection dates are different to those for the normal recycling and refuse collection and a specific crew (not the recycling and refuse crew) will collect your tree from your home.

Please place your tree out for collection alongside your garden waste bag at the boundary of your property (visible from the kerb).

Alternatively, you can deliver your Christmas tree yourself to the following collection points between Monday 4 – Monday 18 January 2016. Please remove decorations and pots.

Christmas Tree Collection Points

NORTH• Sainsbury’s Canal Way (off Ladbroke Grove) W10• Little Wormwood Scrubs (entrance opposite Brewster Gardens) W10• Kensington Memorial Park W10• Talbot Road (in front of the church at the top of Colville Gardens) W11• Cornwall Crescent (junction with Clarendon Road) W11• Tavistock Road (junction with Basing Street) W11• Pembridge Square (entering from Pembridge Villas) W2• Kensington Park Road (junction with Convent Gardens) W11

CENTRAL• Holland Park car park, Abbotsbury Road W14 • Palace Gate (junction with Kensington Gate – near the sculpture) W8 • Ifield Road (junction with Finborough Road) SW10 • Campden Hill Road (between Phillimore Walk and Duchess of Bedford Walk) W8

SOUTH• Denyer Street Depot SW3• Cremorne Gardens, Lots Road SW10• Pont Street (junction with Cadogan Square) SW1X• Royal Avenue (junction with St Leonard’s Terrace) SW3• The Boltons (south side of the church) SW10• Robinson Street (pavement opposite the church) SW3

For those residents registered for garden waste collections, Christmas trees are collected on the same day as your garden waste. Visit www.rbkc.gov.uk/christmastrees to find out the tree collection day on your street or call Streetline on 020 7361 3001.

Christmas collections:There will be no rubbish or recycling collections on Christmas Day, Monday 28 December or New Year’s Day. Normal service will resume on Monday 4 January 2016. Please note there will not be any garden waste collections on 25 and 28 December 2015 or on 1 January 2016.From the week commencing Monday 21 December the refuse and recycling collection arrangements will be as follows:

December 2015

Recycling and refuse normally collected on the following days

Will be collected on

Monday 21 December Monday 21 December Tuesday 22 December Tuesday 22 December Wednesday 23 December Wednesday 23 December Thursday 24 December Thursday 24 DecemberFriday 25 December No collectionMonday 28 December No collectionTuesday 29 December Tuesday 29 DecemberWednesday 30 December Wednesday 30 DecemberThursday 31 December Thursday 31 DecemberFriday 1 January No collection

Normal service will then be resumed on Monday 4 January.If your property has a waste storage area then you must use it, not the pavement. If you do not have a storage area, please put your rubbish and recyclables on the pavement, outside your own property before 7am on the morning of collection (not the night before).

More informationTo find out more about recycling please call Streetline on 020 7361 3001* or email: Streetline@rbkc.gov.uk www.rbkc.gov.uk/binsandrecycling*Please note, your call may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes.

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