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On Bank Holidays bins are emptied on the usual day. There is no change over Bank Holiday weeks. Over Easter and the May and 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.
Bin days will only change for the first part of the week after Christmas. Refuse and recycling collections will be on the normal day from Monday 2 January.
Please note: we collect one type of waste from your property each week. We will empty whichever bin is due that week.
Please check on whichever table below refers to your bin due that week.
| Usual Recycle bin day | Revised Recycle bin day |
| Mon 26 December | Tue 27 December |
| Tue 27 December | Wed 28 December |
| From Wed 28 December | Normal collections resume |
| Usual Refuse bin day | Revised Refuse bin day |
| Mon 26 December | Tue 27 December |
| Tue 27 December | Tue 27 December |
| From Wed 28 December | Normal collections resume |
A calendar for the year is available to download.
Garden waste collections stop after Friday 23rd December, they re-start in mid-January.
From Monday 9 January Garden Waste collections resume for subscribers to the service, on your recycling day. This will be from Monday 16 January in the west of the borough.
In early 2023, we will collect one Christmas tree free from all households. Between 9-20 January, on your normal recycling day only, one Christmas tree per property will be collected. It should be left whole, next to your recycling bin.
Outside this period, Christmas trees will only be collected by the garden waste collection service. They must be in the garden waste bin.
Find ways to store food 
, and use up leftovers , to reduce the amount of food in your bin, and save you money.
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.
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.
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