Bin pick-ups unaltered at Christmas

BIN collections in Ashbourne will remain the same over the festive period, Derbyshire Dales District Council has said, as collection crews will be working Christmas and New Year bank holidays.

The authority’s contractor Serco has agreed to send teams out on Monday, December 27; Tuesday, December 28 and Monday, January 3 - which will mean the usual weekly cycles can continue.

Residents are being asked to note that no additional household waste will be collected, so householders are advised to make sure all their waste is contained in their grey bin with the lid shut, or, for homes on a sack collection, in four standard-sized black sacks.

A district council spokesman said: “Collection crews will take excess recycling but residents should limit the amount of household waste they put out.

“Additional recycling material should be left at the side of recycling containers, making sure it is easily identifiable and suitably contained.

“We recommend using transparent containers, such as stacker boxes, rather than black bags, so we can easily identify the contents, and ask that any excess card, paper and magazines are separated from other excess recycling.

“Cardboard must be flattened and broken down into smaller pieces no wider than 0.5m to fit in the recycling compartment of our trucks.”

Food waste collections will continue weekly and recycling collections fortnightly.

● GARDEN waste collections will remain suspended in the Derbyshire Dales, in a bid to ensure household and recycling collections can continue over the festive period.