Following festive bank holidays residents are being reminded to check when their waste and recycling collections will take place at the start of January by visiting west-norfolk.gov.uk/yourbins.
Cllr Sandra Squire, borough council Cabinet member for the Environment and Coastal, said: “Please remember that you can put additional recycling in any clear bag and put it out with your green recycling bin for collection.
“We introduced weekly small electrical and used battery collections in 2023. I urge our residents to take advantage of these additional services.”
The borough council is also keen to remind residents that weekly food waste collections will continue each week. This creates extra black bin space and is much more environmentally friendly.
Food waste from caddies is sent to an anaerobic digestor where the bags are stripped out, and the rotting waste then produces methane which is then burnt to produce clean electricity. The remaining food waste is pasteurised before being used as fertiliser by farmers, reducing the need to put chemicals on the land.
Find out more about your collection at west-norfolk.gov.uk/yourbins.
Brown bin collections will continue. Please check on the borough council website to see when your collection will take place. Brown bin customers can dispose of real Christmas trees in their brown bins. If the tree does not fit in the bin it can be placed beside it on collection day. Real Christmas trees will not be collected with the black bin refuse collection.
You can also dispose of any excess waste by taking it to household waste recycling centres – check norfolk.gov.uk for locations, opening times and to book entry.
The borough council also has two Christmas tree shredding events for residents to dispose of their real Christmas tree.
The free events take place as follows:
Saturday 4 January 2025: 9am to 12 noon – Hunstanton Recreation Ground car park
Saturday 4 January 2025: 1pm to 3pm – King’s Lynn, Gaywood Plant Nursery, Gayton Road
Only one tree is permitted per household. Decorations should be removed from the tree before it is brought for shredding. Natural wood chipping can be used as a chemical free form of weed suppressant or can be used to improve soil structure, making the most of unwanted Christmas trees.
To report that your bin has not been emptied, please visit west-norfolk.gov.uk/missedbins or call 0330 1099220. Please report this within two days after the collection was due and before 12 noon on the second day.
Collections will resume taking place on your usual day from week commencing 13 January 2025.
