Festive bin collection changes - Manchester
The council is advising residents to check their bin collection dates during the Christmas and New Year period, particularly to check their bin day online to avoid missed collections and to ensure bins are out by 7am on the revised dates.
Collection Dates
No changes to collections on:
Monday 22 December and Monday 29 December
Tuesday 23 December and Tuesday 30 December
Wednesday 24 December and Wednesday 31 December
Changes to Thursday and Friday collections:
Thursday 25 December → Saturday 27 December
Friday 26 December → Sunday 28 December
Thursday 1 January → Friday 2 January
Friday 2 January → Saturday 3 January
Residents are also being encouraged to take care when separating their recyclable materials into the correct recycling bins.
Recycling Guidelines:
Cardboard and Paper - Place in your blue bin. Flatten boxes and remove plastic packaging.
Wrapping Paper and Cards - Recyclable if made entirely of paper. Remove glitter, foil, bows, and ribbons.
Food Waste - Leftovers, including bones, go in your green bin. Clean foil trays can be recycled in your brown bin.
Plastics and Glass - Empty plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays, tin foil, tins, cans, glass bottles, and glass jars go in your brown bin. Plastic films and crisp packets go in your grey bin.
Electrical Items and Batteries - Take to your local recycling centre or supermarket collection points.
Christmas Tree Recycling
Alongside household recycling, real Christmas trees can also be recycled throughout January once all decorations, lights, stands, and wooden bases have been removed. Artificial trees cannot be recycled.
Recycling options:
Charity Collection - Book a collection with Just Helping for a donation. Funds raised support local causes including Moya Cole Hospice, Francis House, and We Love Manchester.
Green Bin - Chop your tree into pieces and place them in your green bin on any green bin day in January.
Drop-off Points: - Trees can be taken to:
Wythenshawe Park and Gardens Athletics Track (M23 0PH)
Heaton Park, Middleton Road entrance (M8 4NB)
Boggart Hole Clough, near Visitor Centre (M9 7DH)
Patchett Street, Ardwick (M12 4RY)
If you live in the city centre, you take your real trees for recycling at:
Angel Meadow Park, entrance Old Mount Street, M4 4HA
Castlefield Bowl, off Rice Street, Manchester M3 4JR
Cutting Room Square, Cotton Street side, Ancoats. M4 6BF
Smithfield Estate, Northern Quarter (opposite Smithfield Craft Centre), Oak Street. M4 5JD
Sackville Gardens, 41 Whitworth Street, Sackville Street M1 3W
You can also take your tree to your local tip / recycling centre.
