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Bank Holiday collections

On Bank Holidays bins are emptied on the usual day. There is no change over Bank Holiday weeks. Over Easter, all the May and the August Bank Holidays, bins will be emptied on the due day.

Please put your bin out on the edge of the public highway by 6am on the morning of your collection, or the evening before.

Christmas 2025 bin collections

Refuse bin due
Usual refuse bin day Revised refuse bin day

Thurs 25 Dec

 Mon 29 Dec

Fri 26 Dec

 Mon 29 Dec

Mon 29 Dec

 Tues 30 Dec

Tues 30 Dec

 Weds 31 Dec
Weds 31 Dec Weds 31 Dec
(same day collection)

Thurs 1 Jan

 Fri 2 Jan

Fri 2 Jan

 Mon 5 Jan

Mon 5 Jan

 Mon 5 Jan
(same day collection)

Tues 6 Jan

 Tues 6 Jan
(same day collection)
Recycle bin due
Usual recycle bin day Revised recycle bin day

Thurs 25 Dec

 Mon 29 Dec

Fri 26 Dec

 Tues 30 Dec

Mon 29 Dec

 Tues 30 Dec

Tues 30 Dec

 Weds 31 Dec

Weds 31 Dec

 Fri 2 Jan

Thurs 1 Jan

 Fri 2 Jan

Fri 2 Jan

 Mon 5 Jan

Mon 5 Jan

 Tues 6 Jan

Tues 6 Jan

 Tues 6 Jan
(same day collection)

Garden waste

Garden waste collections will stop on Friday 12 December and will re-start on Monday 5 January 2026.

Christmas trees

In early 2026, we will be offering a free Christmas tree collection service to all households.  

Your tree will be collected between 5-16 January. If you subscribe to the garden waste subscription service, please leave your Christmas tree whole and next to your garden waste bin for collection. If you are not a garden waste customer, your Christmas tree collection day can be found here.

Outside this period, Christmas trees will only be collected by the garden waste collection service. Subscription to this service is required and trees must be broken up and placed inside the garden waste bin. Sign up to our Clip and Collect garden waste subscription service here.

Food waste

Find ways to store food External Hyperlink (opens in new window), and use up leftovers External Hyperlink (opens in new window), to reduce the amount of food in your bin, and save you money.

Recycling

Please put paper, card, tins, cans, aerosols and plastic bottles in the blue lid recycling bin. Unfortunately no plastic other than bottles are accepted (no plastic pots, tubs, trays or packaging). Please put everything loose in the blue lid bin, not in bags.

Empty jars and bottles can go in the glass recycling banks around the Borough.

Clothes and textiles can be taken to the textile banks.

Household waste recycling centres (HWRC)

You can take excess refuse or other household items to a household waste recycling centre (HWRC). They are open every day except 25 and 26 December and 1 January, but you will need to book a slot to visit. If you have any queries about disposing of household rubbish please check our A - Z of waste, contact us on 01329 236100 or email at customerservicecentre@fareham.gov.uk.