Happy queue year Wolverhampton
This was the scene that greeted people trying to get rid of their boxes, wrapping paper and bottles as cars queued all the way back to a dual carriageway to get to the tip.
Drivers reported waiting 20 minutes or more to get in to Wolverhampton City Council's tip in Anchor Lane, Lanesfield, yesterday.
The queues may have been worse than normal because council tips are shut two days a week due to budget cuts.
Yesterday was the turn of the site in Shaw Road, Bushbury, to be closed meaning more cares waiting at Anchor Lane.
These pictures were taken at 1.30pm by freelance photographer Dave Finchett, from Finchfield.
The 53-year-old said: "People were queueing back to the Black Country Route to get on.
"It took me about 20 minutes.
"You expect a few more cars after Christmas when everyone is having a clear out but this was probably worse because only one of the two tips in Wolverhampton was open."
The city council has also stopped emptying green garden waste wheelie bins between December and the end of March as it works to save £123 million over five years following government funding cuts.
Despite this, however, Christmas trees will be collected by binmen in Wolverhampton. The city council will collect them in the weeks beginning January 12 and January 19. The trees will be taken on whichever day residents normally put out their black recycling bins.
The council also said it would collect extra household waste if people's wheelie bins were full as long as the waste was bagged and placed next to the bins on the normal collection day.
