Island residents are being reminded that recycling, waste and garden collections are changing for 1 week over Christmas due to Boxing Day falling on a Monday.
This will mean that all collections for the week beginning Monday 26th December will run 1 day later than usual. In addition, no bulky waste or free reuse collections will be made on Monday 26th December, Tuesday 27th December and Monday 2nd January 2023.
Collections will be back to normal from Monday 2nd January 2023.
Christmas 2022 – Waste and Recycling Collections
| Usually collected | Will be collected on |
| Monday 26th December (Bank Holiday) | Tuesday 27th December (Bank Holiday) |
| Tuesday 27th December (Bank Holiday) | Wednesday 28th December |
| Wednesday 28th December | Thursday 29th December |
| Thursday 29th December | Friday 30th December |
| Friday 30th December | Saturday 31st December |
What to do with all that extra Christmas cardboard
If you have lots of cardboard waste, bundle up and place it separately to the side of your recycling bin/sack on your recycling week collection.
Polystyrene
Amey will collect excess polystyrene from households on black bin/sack waste collection days from Monday 19th December 2022 until Friday 13th January 2023. If you have extra polystyrene packaging that won’t fit in your black bin or sack, just place it within a clear or white plastic bag next to your black bin/black gull sack on your collection day.
It must be in a clear or white sack so that the collection crews can easily identify it. The clear bag must only hold polystyrene, or it won’t be collected. Any excess general waste or black sacks left to the side of your bin or gull sack will not be collected.
After 13th January, as polystyrene is not currently recyclable, it must be placed in your black bin/black gull sack or taken to Lynnbottom or Afton Marsh Household Waste Recycling Centre and placed in the general rubbish skip.
Batteries
Place your spent household batteries safely and separately in their own clear sandwich-sized bag. Leave the clear bag holding the batteries on top (not inside) of your general waste (black bins/black gull-proof sacks) on your general waste collection week.
Batteries thrown into ordinary bins/sacks, household waste or with other recycling are dangerous.
Large batteries such as laptop/phone/power tool batteries and car batteries or items where the batteries cannot be removed should be taken to your nearest Household Waste Recycling Centre.
Household Waste and Recycling Centres (HWRCs)
Lynnbottom and Afton Marsh Household Waste and Recycling Centres will be closed on Christmas Day. Other than this, normal opening hours apply.
However, Islanders must still book a tip trip by visiting the Isle of Wight Council’s website or by calling 01983 823777.
Amey never take my excess rubbish,instead they put a sticker on it hoping the rubbish fairy’s come along,I’m 83 years old and don’t drive anymore so I’m forced to have a fire and burn it! I no it’s not good for the environment but Amey and the IW Council leave me no other choice but to burn it.
Sounds like a load of rubbish to me.
I think it is terrible.
Depending on what you are burning it may not be good for you or your neighbours, sometimes it is so toxic it can kill people within minutes so if you are burning be careful on what you burn.
Does anyone know where you can get these large clear plastic bags from? They keep asking us to use them for recycles of fabric, now polystyrene from all the festive gifts?
Does anyone know about wrapping paper .. I think before we’ve put that in clear bags and put out on recycling day
Recycle it, BUT take off all sticky tape first. and make sure that it is the right sort of paper.
Why can’t they just take all the extra general waste, and tip it at the “energy from waste” plant at Forest Road?
Oh yes, it’s still not working properly, about 2 years late.