Crack Easter recycling – waste collections for 2024

The good news is that you can cut down on waste by choosing Easter eggs that come in less packaging and have a waste-free Easter by recycling as much as possible.

What you can recycle this Easter

Scrunch aluminium foil from Easter eggs into a ball and recycle these in your green box. If the foil springs back open when scrunched, this means it’s laminated and should go in your general rubbish bin.

Cardboard boxes and plastic trays can go in your kerbside recycling for collection; please flatten them to save space.

Easter cards and envelopes can be recycled at home in your kerbside recycling; if they have glitter or foil they can be recycled at Cheltenham’s Cobalt Unit or put in general waste.

Leftover Easter food can be frozen and used at a later date, or made into more delicious meals. Visit Love Food Hate Waste for recipe ideas.
Any inedible food waste such as cabbage stalks can go into your food caddy or fed to pets.

Soft plastic-wrapping for hot cross buns can be recycled at local supermarkets along with plastic bags. The council is trialling a FlexCollect recycling service with kerbside collections with selected residents, which is set to be rolled out to include even more households in the near future.

Rescheduled waste and recycling collections over Easter

Crews will be working on Good Friday so collections will take place as normal on that day. No collections will be made on Easter Monday; collections that week will be a day later than usual.
Crews will be working up to and including Saturday 6 April to complete the catch-up. All collections will be back to normal from week commencing Monday 8 April.

Please note that in some areas refuse and recycling collections take place as early as 7am so please have your bins, boxes, bags and caddies presented in good time.

Cllr Iain Dobie, cabinet member for waste, recycling and street services, said: “We’d like to thank all of our residents for sorting their recycling – it really does make a difference, it reduces the amount of recycling being handled by the crews and speeds up the collections allowing us to collect more recycling.

“I’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone receiving Easter eggs this year to remember to recycle all the cardboard and foil packaging to reduce what goes into our refuse bins where possible.’’

Normal collection day	Revised collection day
Friday 29 March (Good Friday)	No change – normal collections
Monday 1 April (Easter Monday)	Tuesday 2 April
Tuesday 2 April	Wednesday 3 April
Wednesday 3 April	Thursday 4 April
Thursday 4 April	Friday 5 April
Friday 5 April	Saturday 6 April
Monday 8 April - normal collections resume

 

Opening hours at the Swindon Road household recycling centre over Easter bank holiday

If you’re planning on making a trip to Swindon Road household recycling centre, you’ll need to pre-book your visit. To book a slot visit www.cheltenham.gov.uk/hrc-booking or call 01242 262626 (phone bookings are available weekdays from 9am to 5pm). For more information, including FAQs, visit www.cheltenham.gov.uk/hrc-booking-faqs.

Friday 29 March (Good Friday)	8.30am to 4pm
Saturday 30 March	8.30am to 3pm
Sunday 31 March (Easter Sunday)	CLOSED
Monday 1 April (Easter Monday)	8.30am to 4pm

 

Early May bank holiday

Normal collection day	Revised collection day
Monday 6 May (Early May bank holiday)	Tuesday 7 May
Tuesday 7 May	Wednesday 8 May
Wednesday 8 May	Thursday 9 May
Thursday 9 May	Friday 10 May
Friday 10 May	Saturday 11 May
Monday 13 May - normal collections resume

 

For information regarding other bank holidays in 2023 visit www.cheltenham.gov.uk/bank-holiday-collections, and find out more about waste and recycling, visit the council’s website www.cheltenham.gov.uk/bins.

For press enquiries contact:  communications team, email [email protected] or telephone 01242 264231.