Festive bin collection changes - Salford
Salford Bin Collections Over the Festive Period
There are some changes to your bin collection days during the festive period.
No collection will take place on: Your replacement collection date is:
Thursday 25 December 2025 Saturday 20 December 2025
Friday 26 December 2025 Saturday 27 December 2025
Thursday 1 January 2026 Saturday 3 January 2026
If your pink lidded bin or food caddy has not been emptied on your normal collection day please accept our apologies. This is due to operational staff issues over the Christmas period. Please take your bin or caddy back in and place it out again on your next scheduled collection day when we will be able to return and empty it.
Don’t forget to recycle your wrapping paper, tinfoil, bottles, cans, your Christmas tree and left-over food.
Recycling Christmas tree and recycling centre timings
How to recycle your Christmas tree
You can recycle your real Christmas tree either:
By taking it to your local household and recycling centre.
By chopping it into pieces and put them in your food and garden pink lidded bin - please take off the base or wooden block if your tree has one and make sure the trunk is not thicker than your wrist. Wood thicker than your wrist is too big and can’t be put in your pink lidded food and garden bin. You can take large trunks and wooden bases to your local recycling centre.
By arranging for it to be collected and recycled by the Just Helping Charity. Go to just-helping.org.uk/register-tree for details.
Household recycling centres
Your local recycling centres will all be open except on Christmas Day (Thursday 25 December 2025) and New Year's Day (Thursday 1 January 2026) when they will be closed. Please check holiday opening times on the Recycle for Greater Manchester site before you visit:
Brindle Heath, Cobden Street, Salford, M6 6NA
Lumns Lane, Swinton, M27 8LN
Boysnope Wharf, Irlam, M30 7RH
Salford Road Recycling Centre, Salford Road, Bolton, BL5 1DG