Christmas Collection Arrangements

This year, over the Christmas and New Year period, the Council will continue providing your alternate weekly waste and recycling scheme, with a change to one day only.

The collections which are due on Monday 26th December (Boxing Day) have been rescheduled and will now take place on Saturday 24th December (Christmas Eve).

Up to 3 additional bags of side waste will be collected with your blue and grey bins during the period 27th December up to and including the 9th January on your due collection day. Flattened cardboard will also be collected at the side of your blue bin. Please consult your collection calendars which have recently been delivered to ensure that the correct colour bin is presented on your collection day.

PLEASE NOTE: the brown bins will NOT BE suspended this year. Brown bin collections will be continuing through the Christmas and New Year period to enable residents to recycle any leftover food waste.

If you have excess recyclables they can be taken to one of the recycling sites located throughout the borough. Excess waste can be taken to the household waste sites on Shobnall Road, Burton upon Trent or Pennycroft Lane, Uttoxeter.

If you want to request a collection calendar, please go to our collection date search page.

If you want clarification on when your recycling and waste will be collected please contact Customer Services on 0800 269098.

Christmas Card and Christmas Tree Recycling

After the Christmas period, residents in East Staffordshire can recycle Christmas cards in their blue wheeled bins.

Residents can also recycle their real Christmas trees through the brown bin scheme. Place your real Christmas tree inside your brown bin ensuring that the lid is fully closed or place it at the side of the bin and it will be collected on your collection day.