Household Recycling & Refuse Collections: Bank Holiday Day Changes for 2014
Usual collection day Revised collection day
Easter
Good Friday 18 April Saturday 19 April
Easter Monday 21 April –Friday 25 April All collections 1 day later including Friday pick ups on Saturday 26 April
May
Early May Bank Holiday
Monday 5 May –Friday 9 May All collections one day later, including Friday pick-ups on Saturday 10 May
Spring Bank Holiday
Monday 26 May –Friday 30 May All collections one day later, including Friday pick-ups on Saturday 31 May
August
Summer Bank Holiday
Monday 25 August – Friday 29 August All collections one day later, including
Friday pick-ups on Saturday 30 August
What can you recycle at the kerbside?
Two recycling boxes are provided for weekly collections of paper, cardboard, glass bottles
and jars, food and drink cans, household plastic bottles, aluminium foil (bagged), shoes –
in pairs – and clothes (double bagged). Car batteries can be left beside recycling boxes.
Recycle your food waste into electrical power by using the food waste collection service.
Recycling Sites
A wide range of household materials can be recycled and other household waste
deposited for disposal at Recycling Centres and Community Recycling Sites throughout
Somerset.
Bridgwater, Frome, Minehead, Taunton, Yeovil Recycling Centres are open 8am-4pm
every day including Sundays. All other sites are open five days a week, including
Saturdays 8am-4pm, Sundays 8am-1pm, and Mondays 8am-7pm.
Sites are free to use for household waste, except Crewkerne and Dulverton, which have a
£2 entry fee. (Coleford and Middlezoy closed from 1 April). All sites have charges for
hardcore, soil, gas bottles and tyres. See our website for details.
Having a Spring Clean?
If you have items in good condition that you are clearing out, please remember your local
charity shop, furniture reuse group or try your local Freecycle or Freegle group, or an
online auction, such as eBay. These are all excellent ways of giving new life to good items
and cutting down on waste at the same time. For details see: www.somersetwaste.gov.uk
For lots more see: www.somersetwaste.gov.uk
Our website has full details of services, more you can do to reduce and reuse waste, and
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