THE NEW timetable for Christmas bin collections was announced today.

Residents’ bins across Buckinghamshire are set to be emptied on a revised holiday schedule over the Christmas holiday period.

Buckinghamshire Council urged everyone to remember to recycle while celebrating the season, which is expected to produce around 30 percent more waste than usual, Bucks Council said.

While Buckinghamshire’s Household Recycling Centre remain shut on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, residents can recycle cards and crackers (without the snap), paper hats, non-glittery wrapping paper and chocolate boxes at home.

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Household Recycling Centres will remain open on all other days.

After the festive period, Christmas trees, wreaths, holly and mistletoe should be disposed of using the Council’s garden waste collection service.

Existing garden waste customers cut their tree into smaller pieces without decorations and put the pieces in their garden waste bin.

Residents, who are not subscribed to the garden waste collection service, have the option to take their tree to a household recycling centre or to a local charity collection.

The garden waste collection will be suspended for six weeks from Monday December 12 until Monday January 23, when it resumes.

Here is a full list of Christmas bank holiday bin collections in Buckinghamshire.

Usual collection day                                                     Revised collection day

Monday 26 December (Boxing Day)                                Wednesday 28 December

Tuesday 27 December (Christmas Bank Holiday)              Thursday 29 December

Wednesday 28 December                                               Friday 30 December

Thursday 29 December                                                  Saturday 31 December

Friday 30 December                                                      Tuesday 3 January

Monday 2 January (New Year Bank Holiday)                    Wednesday 4 January

Tuesday 3 January                                                        Thursday 5 January

Wednesday 4 January                                                    Friday 6 January

Thursday 5 January                                                       Saturday 7 January

Friday 6 January                                                            Monday 9 January

Monday 9 January                                                         Tuesday 10 January

Tuesday 10 January                                                       Wednesday 11 January

Wednesday 11 January                                                  Thursday 12 January

Thursday 12 January                                                     Friday 13 January

Friday 13 January                                                         Saturday 14 January