When your bins will be collected in Walsall over Christmas

Only three days are affected, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. If your collection falls on any other day, then your bins will be collected as normal.  

Christmas Day: If your collection day falls on Wednesday, December 25, your collection will be rescheduled to Saturday, December 21.

Boxing Day: If it falls on Thursday, December 26, your collection day is rescheduled to Saturday, December 28. 

New Year’s Day: If your collection falls on Wednesday, January 1, your new collection day will be Saturday, January 4. 

Households which have had their collection day rescheduled will be allowed one extra bag of waste. Walsall Council said the bagged waste will be collected on the revised date but may be collected by a separate crew. It assured residents not to panic if the bag is left behind temporarily. 

The extra bag allowance is only for households which are affected by the festive rescheduling. Unaffected households are not permitted to leave an extra bag. 

Other waste, including recyclables such as cardboard boxes and glass bottles, can be taken to the council’s household waste and recycling centres at Fryers Road in Bloxwich and Merchants Way in Aldridge. 

Both sites are only closed on three days each year – Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. They are usually very busy around the festive period, so residents are advised to [‘view the queue’ via the webcams] at the two sites before setting out.

Councillor Kerry Murphy, portfolio holder for street pride at Walsall Council, said: “Residents who would be due to have a collection on Christmas Day will be having earlier collections of their recycling and waste bins on Saturday 21 December 2024. It’s been planned this way so that they’re not left with full bins just as the festive period starts.

“We will be putting out reminders about the arrangements of course, but we’re all busy in the run-up to the big day trying to remember 101 things still left to do and I can imagine how frustrating it would be to forget to give the bins their early Christmas outing.

“So, I’d like to appeal to all the people who are much more organised than I could ever hope to be, to spread the word in their streets and get those bins out for emptying on 21 December 2024. These households will of course have extra waste to dispose of after Christmas and so our crews will collect one bag of waste along with their scheduled collection on 8 January 2025.

“I would like to place on record my respect for, and appreciation of, our recycling and waste workers for their hard work throughout the year and in all weathers. And make no mistake, it is hard work. These workers provide an essential service we rely on so much, yet take for granted because they just quietly crack on and do it.”