Changes to rubbish collections and other services over Christmas and New Year

Information about how the Christmas and New Year period affects Covid services, rubbish and recycling collections, tip opening times and bus timetables.

Contents:

Covid Advice, Testing and Vaccinations

Testing, vaccinations and advice remain available on many days over the Christmas and New Year period, although hours may be reduced:

Rubbish, recycling and garden waste collections

Your usual collection day may change due to the Bank Holidays over the coming weeks.

Details are below:

Rubbish and Recycling

Usual Collection DayRevised Collection Day
Friday 24 DecemberFriday 31 December*
Monday 27 DecemberMonday 3 January*
Tuesday 28 DecemberTuesday 4 January*
Wednesday 29 DecemberWednesday 29 December
Thursday 30 DecemberThursday 30 December
Friday 31 DecemberFriday 31 December
Monday 3 JanuaryMonday 3 January

* A refuse bin along with 3 black bags will be collected on double collection days.

Recycling will be collected from the brown lidded wheeled bin, any large cardboard should be flattened and left by the side of the recycling bin. Please remove any polystyrene, sticky tape or string from the cardboard before placing out for recycling.

Garden Waste

Usual Collection DayRevised Collection Day
Monday 27 DecemberWednesday 29 December
Tuesday 28 DecemberThursday 30 December
Wednesday 29 DecemberWednesday 29 December
Thursday 30 DecemberThursday 30 December
Friday 31 DecemberFriday 31 December
Monday 3 JanuaryMonday 3 January

Christmas Wrapping Paper, Cards and Real Christmas Trees

Plain Wrapping Paper can go in your recycling bin (green bin with a brown lid) as long as you remove gift tags, sticky tape, string, bows and ribbons. Please do not include shiny metallic and laminated paper, tissue/crepe paper, paper containing glitter and gift bags. These should all go in your general waste (black bin).

Real Christmas trees can go in your garden waste bin (if they fit), are accepted at the Oadby Tip (opening times below) or can be collected: please contact the Borough Council’s Customer Services on 0116 288 8961 or csc@oadby-wigston.gov.uk between 4th January and 31st January 2022 to arrange collection.

Like wrapping paper, plain Christmas Cards can be put in your recycle bin but those with glitter, embellishments and batteries should go in your black general waste bin. Where possible, take out the battery and recycle separately at the Oadby Tip or other collection sites.

Oadby Tip Opening Times

This time of year can mean that some households have more waste / recycling than normal and the Oadby Tip is an extra option to recycle or dispose of items like batteries that are harmful to the environment. A list of items accepted at the Tip are here.

The Tip is operated by Leicestershire County Council. They have said that the Tip is closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Please be aware that because of this, the Tip may be busier than normal and try to time your visit for when it may be usually less busy (we find that is sometimes shortly after opening).

As the Tip is normally closed on Thursdays and Fridays, we believe that this means that the revised Christmas and New Year opening times are:

Friday 24 DecemberCLOSED
Christmas Day – Saturday 25th DecemberCLOSED
Boxing Day – Sunday 26th DecemberCLOSED
Monday 27 DecemberOPEN 9am to 4pm
Tuesday 28 DecemberOPEN 9am to 4pm
Wednesday 29 DecemberOPEN 9am to 4pm
Thursday 30 DecemberCLOSED
New Year’s Eve – Friday 31 DecemberCLOSED
New Year’s Day- Saturday 1 JanuaryCLOSED
Sunday 2 JanuaryOPEN 9am to 4pm
Monday 3 JanuaryOPEN 9am to 4pm

Bus Services over Christmas and New Year

Arriva Buses (all buses except the X7 and 40 services)

Arriva will run to the following timetables:

DateService
Christmas EveSaturday service with early finish around 7pmView full Christmas Eve and New Years Eve timetables here
Christmas DayNo service
Boxing DayNo service
Bank Holiday 27th and 28th DecemberSunday service with early finish around 7pmView full Bank Holiday services here
29th and 30th DecemberSaturday services
New Year’s EveSaturday service with early finish around 7pmView full Christmas Eve and New Years Eve timetables here
New Year’s DayNo service
2nd and 3rd January 2022Sunday service with early finish around 7pmView full Bank Holiday services here

Normal service will resume on Tuesday 4th January 2022.

https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/seasonal-bus-times/christmas-and-new-year

X7 – Leicester – Market Harborough

https://www.stagecoachbus.com/routes/midlands/x7/leicester-market-harborough/xlbx007.i

40 – Circleline

Centrebus have their changes here, which can be summarised as

Christmas Eve – Friday 24th December 2021

Current Weekday timetables

Christmas Day & Boxing Day – Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th December 2021

No service.

Monday 27th& Tuesday 28th December 2021

Sunday timetable

Wednesday 29th to Friday 31st December (New Year’s Eve) 2021

Saturday timetable

New Years Day – Saturday 1st January 2022

No Service.

Sunday 2nd & Monday 3rd January 2022

Sunday timetable.

From Tuesday 4th January 2022

Services return to their current or temporary timetables.

New Black Bins Being Delivered

… but don’t use them until June

The new black wheelie bins for general rubbish are now being delivered to households across the Borough. However residents should continue to use their own bags/ bins for non-recyclable waste until June.

The black wheelie bins can be used from the start of June. For some residents in the Borough, waste collection days will change from the start of June. Full details are on the Borough Council web site.