Help to cut the Christmas recycling confusion

A new online search tool is available to help residents cut through the confusion about what to do with their Christmas waste this festive season.

The Right Waste, Right Place search contains more than 10,000 items. It tells users the best way to dispose of an item as well as offering options for reusing them, where appropriate.

The tool doesn't just cover Wychavon's kerbside recycling scheme, but also facilities available at Household Recycling Centres, in supermarkets and retail stores, community collection schemes and charity shops.

If an item cannot be found, then users have the option to make a suggestion. Wychavon's team will then research the best way to dispose of that item and add it to the database.

Research shows households intensify their recycling efforts during the festive period but there is often confusion about what to do with items such as mobile phones, glass, decorations. Clothing and Christmas trees.

Cllr Emma Stokes, Executive Board Member for Wychavon District Council, said: "We know our residents are keen recyclers and this is just another way we are supporting them to make sure they get the right waste in the right place."

Visit www.wychavon.gov.uk/recycling-search to use the tool.

Wychavon has also announced changes to waste and recycling collections over the Christmas and New Year period.

Between 19 and 23 December 2022 collections take place as normal. They will then change as follows:

Please make sure bins are out by 7am on the day of collection as collection times may be different to usual. Collections will be carried out as normal from 2 January 2023. 

Between Tuesday 27 December 2022 to Friday 6 January 2023 residents can put out up to two extra sacks of waste next to their black bin. Extra recycling can be put in clear sacks next to green bins. Clear sacks are available from local libraries in Broadway, Droitwich Spa and Evesham and the Civic Centre in Pershore.

Garden waste customers with real Christmas trees can put them next to their brown bin. They need to be cut up into manageable chunks no more than 4ft in height.