Christmas Bin Collections and City Council opening hours

The Christmas holidays always bring some disruption to bin collections owing to the cluster of bank holidays. This year is no exception and collections usually scheduled between Boxing Day and January 6th are all moved back one day.

This means if your bins are due to be collected on Thursdays, then they won't be collected on the 29th December and 5th January, but will instead be collected on Friday 30th and and Friday 6th January.

Collections should be back to normal on the week starting Monday 9th January.

On the subject of bins and Christmas, after the holidays real Christmas trees can be recycled by either taking them to Cherry Hinton Hall, or (more likely from this side of Cambridge) by cutting them up and placing in Green bins.

More details can be found on the Christmas Opening pages of the City Council website.

Cambridge City Council have also published details of opening hours for the Service Centre, City Homes and King's Hedges Learner pool (among others). These can all be found on that page.

Hopefully we won't have the same problems with snow as we had last year, but if we do then keep an eye on the City Council webpage for service updates.

If you have any problems or comments on the services, please let the team know.

Christmas and New Year bin collections

We are getting close to Christmas and the changes to bin collections that causes.

This year Christmas and New Years day are both on a Saturday, and the bank holidays are on Monday and Tuesday.

The plan is to collect Monday and Tuesday routes on the Tuesday and leave other days unaffected.

The full details of other Christmas service changes are on the City Council website.

Full details of waste collection changes:

Regular collection date	Revised collection date
Friday 24 December	no change
Monday 27 December	Tuesday 28 December
Tuesday 28 December	no change
Wednesday 29 December	no change
Thursday 30 December	no change
Friday 31 December	no change
Monday 3 January	Tuesday 4 January
Tuesday 4 January	no change

I think this means most people in King's Hedges are unaffected by the changes this year.

I hope that my picture from last year isn't repeated, but in case it is keep an eye on the City's service updates page for more information.

Blue Bin Changes - 16th November 2009

If you've had your bins collected this week you should have noticed a sticker on the bin letting you know that, amongst other things, the way we collect recycling in the city is about to change.

"From November 16th 2009 your new Blue Bin will be emptied on the same day as your Green Bin.

Your collection day will not change.

If you do not have a Blue Bin, put your recycling boxes out with your Green Bin from November 16th instead. Do not put any recycling out with your Black Bin".

If you have any questions either leave a comment, contact one of the team (the address is on the left), or you can contact the City Council directly on 01223 458628 (or via email; enquiries@cambridge.gov.uk)