Business as usual for bin collections

It will be business as usual for bin collections in the Newtown area over the Christmas and New Year period

This year Christmas and New Year fall on weekends, which means that there will be no changes to your recycling and rubbish collections over the festive period.

Powys County Council offers the following advise:

During the festive period please remember to continue to do your bit and recycle as much as possible:

- After the Christmas and New Year parties don’t just throw all those cans and bottles away - rinse them out and recycle them.

- Take your Christmas tree to one of the six household waste and recycling centres across Powys or to a green waste collection bank at some of the community recycling sites - remember to remove all the decorations first.

- Unfortunately we can not accept wrapping paper in the kerbside recycling collections – the re-processors don’t like the glue, glitter, sticky tape and ribbons that contaminate the recycling process.

- If your recycling is collected in a clear recycling bag you can add your plain Christmas cards to your kerbside collection to be recycled. Unfortunately, if your paper and card recycling is collected in a blue box, you can not add your cards to your kerbside collections – the recycling from these boxes goes to a different re-processor who are unable to recycle the cards easily. But plain cards can be taken to your nearest community recycling site.

- Alternatively, organisations such as the Woodlands Trust collect and recycle Christmas cards. These can be taken to Marks and Spencer, WH Smiths or TKMaxx stores. Some large superstores also run their own Christmas card recycling schemes.

- If you don’t manage to take your cards to be recycled, why not reuse them next year as gift tags, or let the local primary school have them to make their own decorations?

For more details on how to cut down on waste and recycle more, please visit www.powys.gov.uk