Torridge District Council would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to residents who have continued to boost the recycling rates across the District which now also includes small electrical goods and batteries. While the festive season is a period for many of us to relax and spend time with family and friends, the message being sent out is to KEEP RECYCLING,especially all the cardboard, drinks containers and other waste items Christmas celebrations usually generate.
Torridge crews will be taking a well-deserved short break during the festive period and there will be no kerbside recycling collections on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Day. However, crews will be working normally on other days across the holiday period to collect any festive leftovers. The Council is asking people to check their collection dates on their online calendar as some of the collections will be a day later or earlier than usual as a result of the public holidays.
To accommodate the extra work over this period, as usual, there will be no garden waste collections between Monday 23rd December 2024 and Sunday 5th January 2025. Collections will start again on Monday 6th January 2025.
Lots of festive items can be fully recycled, including:
Real Christmas Trees – Ideally chopped up and placed in the Green Wheelie bin, or whole trees can be placed next to the Green Bin.
Plastic bottles, containers and tins (green box).
Foil trays (green box).
Glass bottles and jars (black box).
Christmas cards without glitter (brown bag).
Christmas card envelopes (brown bag).
Food waste, including turkey bones (green food caddies).
Cardboard (broken up or flattened) which must be placed in the brown bag. Each household can have two brown bags and to order an extra one people should visit the Council’s website.
There are some items which unfortunately cannot be recycled:
Large, oversized cardboard boxes may be rejected unless broken into pieces and placed in the brown bags, or alternatively these can be taken to one of the local Devon County Council recycling centres.
Items covered in glitter.
We can only accept brown wrapping paper, due to the low-grade nature of standard wrapping paper for which there is currently no commercial end use.
Items that can’t be recycled will be collected in the black bag waste collections but no waste will be sent to landfill as these collections are sent to an energy from waste plant where it is processed to generate electricity.
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