Worthing Borough Council

Christmas in Worthing

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• Town Hall, Portland House and Customer Services - Opening Hours
• Theatres - Opening Hours
  
• Tourist Information Centre - Opening Hours
• Museum and Art Gallery - Opening Hours
• Public Toilets - Opening Hours
• Recycling, refuse, garden waste collections (and Christmas trees)
  • My wheelie bin is full - will you collect extra bags this Christmas / New Year?
  • Garden Waste Collections Suspended (27th December until 10th January 2011)
  • Christmas Tree Collections
  • Recycling Tips and Advice

We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Town Hall, Portland House and Customer Services

The Town Hall and Portland House will close at 4.00pm on Christmas Eve, Friday 24th December 2010, and then re-open again at 8:30am on Tuesday 4th January 2011.

Recycling, refuse, garden waste collections (and Christmas trees)

• In the event of snow and ice please see the AWCS website or see the Snow information for the latest news 

You can download a collection day calendar for your street on Adur and Worthing Council's Services Collection Day Calendar tool. This might be useful to those on fortnightly recycling collections if you unsure how this will be affected.

Otherwise the following changes will be in place:

Changes to Bin Collections : Christmas and New Year 2010

• Bin last collected on : Monday 20th December 2010
  after Christmas will be emptied on : Wednesday 29th December 2010
  and after new year will be collected on : Thursday 6th January 2011
• Bin last collected on : Tuesday 21st December 2010
  after Christmas will be emptied on : Thursday 30th December 2010
  and after new year will be collected on : Friday 7th January 2011
• Bin last collected on : Wednesday 22nd December 2010
  Next collected on : Friday 31st December 2010
  and after new year will be collected on: Monday 10th January 2011
• Bin last collected on : Thursday 23rd December 2010
  no collection between Christmas and New Year
  and after new year will be collected on : Tuesday 4th January 2011
• Bin last collected on : Friday 24th December 2010
  no collection between Christmas and New Year
  and after new year will be collected on : Wednesday 5th January 2011

After the change for new year, your collection day will remain on this day of the week until Easter bank holiday or until further notice.

My wheelie bin is full - will you collect extra bin bags over the Christmas / New Year period?

Short answer : Yes.

We understand over the Christmas / New Year period that some people will be waiting longer than one week for their wheelie bins to be emptied so we will collect extra bin bags (side waste) if your refuse wheelie bin gets full. Please do try to recycle as much as possible though; so instead of chucking out your christmas cards and wrapping paper as refuse, recycle it instead.

Garden waste collections

• There will be no garden waste collections Monday 27th December until Monday 10th January 2011.

Christmas tree collections

• Your unwanted real Christmas trees should be put out for recycling from the 10th January 2011 on your normal refuse collection days - the garden waste is collected weekly and resumes on this date so your real Christmas trees will be collected if put out. If possible large trees should be cut into smaller pieces to aid the collection of the trees. You do not need to be a garden waste service subscriber to have your tree collected for no charge.

Recycling tips and advice

• Reuse your Christmas greetings cards and make new ones (or present tags) for next year, alternatively recycle them in your blue box.
• Christmas wrappings can also be put into your blue box and recycled.
• Don’t forget to recycle all glass bottles and jars, cans and plastic shaped bottles over the Christmas and New Year period.
• Compost all those peelings when preparing your Christmas dinner.
• Use rechargeable batteries for all those new electric toys.
• Take any unwanted gifts or clothing items to the charity shop.
• Make a new year's resolution to recycle and compost more (or to start recycling/composting if you do not already do so.)

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