New 2012/13 Recycling Calendar now out

Look out for your copy of the new 2012/13 recycling calendar in the post with your Council Tax bill during March.

The recycling calendar applies from April 2012 onwards unless you use communal recycling and rubbish bins. You can help Colchester recycle even more; our target this year is to recycle 43% of all the rubbish produced.

The Calendar includes information on:

• what you can recycle in blue and green weeks
• when and how to put your recycling out for collection
• the enhanced garden waste collection of up to 8 sacks from 6 November

Visit www.colchester.gov.uk/recycling to view the Recycling Calendar in alternative formats, along with information and online services to help you reduce, reuse and recycle your rubbish, home compost and much more. Alternatively email recycling@colchester.gov.uk or phone 01206 282700.

Getting recycling containers is easy, visit www.colchester.gov.uk/recyclingcontainers to see when rolls of recycling and rubbish bags will be delivered to households (except to flats with communal bins). You can also find recycling containers stockists and an online order form.

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Thank you for recycling your rubbish!

Recycling centres change opening hours

Essex Council have asked us to let you know about changes to opening hours of their Recycling Centres for Household Waste. As of 9th January 2012 the following changes will commence:

• All sites will open at 9am rather than the current 8am.
• Winter opening times (from 9th January 2012– 29th February 2012) for all centres will be 9am to 4pm.
• Summer opening times (1st March – 15th October) will be 9am to 5pm.
• Late night opening on Tuesdays during a limited period over the summer will no longer take place.
• Some recycling centres in the county will be closed on certain days of the week from the 9th January 2012.

For further information on recycling centres or to find details about any specific centre either visit www.essex.gov.uk/recyclingcentres or contact 0845 603 7625.

Recycling & Rubbish over Easter & May Bank Holidays

Recycling and rubbish collections will take place one day later than usual over the Easter and early May Bank Holiday period, as in previous years.

From Good Friday 22 April until Saturday 8 May all recycling and rubbish will be collected the day after your usual collection day.

This also means that if your usual collection day is Thursday, you will receive a collection on the Royal Wedding Bank Holiday Friday. If your usual collection day is Friday, you will receive a collection on Saturday for three consecutive weeks.
Please remember to put your recycling and rubbish out by 7am on the morning of your collection day. All collections will return to your normal day from Monday 9 May.

Click here for more details about collections over this Bank Holidays period.

Click here to check the opening times of the recycling centres for household waste (the 'tip') over the Bank Holiday break.