Hull City Council is reminding residents to check their bin collection days over the festive period.
Due to the bank holidays over Christmas and New Year, there will be changes to the usual collection schedule.
Hull residents can check their collection days at any time via the online bin collection day checker or on the 2025-26 calendars included in the recycling packs recently sent to every household in the city.
Councillor Charles Quinn, portfolio holder for environment at Hull City Council, said: “Bin collections over Christmas and New Year are slightly different, so to ensure bins are emptied, everyone should check their calendars to make sure they put their bins out on the right days.”
The changes to the collection schedule are as follows:
| Usual collection date | Revised collection date |
| Thursday 25 December (bank holiday) | Saturday 27 December |
| Friday 26 December (bank holiday) | Tuesday 30 December |
| Tuesday 30 December | Wednesday 31 December |
| Wednesday 31 December | Friday 2 January |
| Thursday 1 January (bank holiday) | Saturday 3 January |
| Friday 2 January | Tuesday 6 January |
| Tuesday 6 January | Wednesday 7 January |
| Wednesday 7 January | Thursday 8 January |
| Thursday 8 January | Friday 9 January |
| Friday 9 January | Saturday 10 January |
Normal collection dates resume on Tuesday 13 January.
The council is urging residents to cut down on food waste and recycle right this festive season – a time when household waste typically rises by around a third.
Cllr Quinn added: “With all the extra food, packaging, and wrapping at Christmas, it’s easy for waste to pile up. But most of it can be recycled, and a lot of food waste can be avoided altogether.
“This Christmas, we’re asking everyone to plan meals carefully, use up leftovers, and make sure any unavoidable food waste goes in the brown bin.”
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Any excess waste can be taken to one of the city’s three household waste and recycling centres (HWRC) where many unwanted items can also be donated for sale in Reuse shops.
Real Christmas trees can be recycled by being chopped up and put in the brown bin, or taken whole to your nearest HWRC at Burma Drive, Sutton Fields and Wiltshire Road.
Hull’s household waste and recycling centres will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day and will be open from 10am to 4pm on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
At all other times, the centres are open from 10am to 5pm, seven days a week.