Overview
- Local authorities publish Christmas and New Year timetables, suspend many garden waste rounds for multi‑week periods, and urge residents to check online calendars, set bins out early, and keep batteries and vapes out of kerbside waste.
- No collections will take place on bank holidays, with rescheduled dates issued in areas such as Tameside, North East Lincolnshire, Wiltshire and North Devon, while Swindon will retain a two‑working‑day shift through 2026.
- Glasgow will focus collections on shared bins at flatted properties over the festive period, leaving some kerbside households whose slots fall on public holidays waiting up to four weeks until their next pickup, with extra waste taken on the next scheduled round.
- England’s Environmental Improvement Plan requires weekly household food waste collections from 31 March 2026, with scope for agreed transitional arrangements for some councils.
- Birmingham’s transformation includes a weekly food caddy service and three wheelie bins for alternating fortnightly recycling and residual waste, a 10,000‑home pilot from March, depot‑by‑depot rollout starting June 2026, and later phases for multi‑occupancy homes into 2026–27.