There will be changes to the usual bin collection schedule in Hull over Christmas and New Year.
You can check collection days at any time via the online bin collection day checker or on the 2025-26 calendars included in the recycling packs recently sent to every household in the city.
The changes to the collection schedule are as follows:
| Usual collection date | Revised collection date |
| Thursday 25 December (bank holiday) | Saturday 27 December |
| Friday 26 December (bank holiday) | Tuesday 30 December |
| Tuesday 30 December | Wednesday 31 December |
| Wednesday 31 December | Friday 2 January |
| Thursday 1 January (bank holiday) | Saturday 3 January |
| Friday 2 January | Tuesday 6 January |
| Tuesday 6 January | Wednesday 7 January |
| Wednesday 7 January | Thursday 8 January |
| Thursday 8 January | Friday 9 January |
| Friday 9 January | Saturday 10 January |
Normal collection dates resume on Tuesday 13 January.
Find out what goes in which bin using the following links:
Any excess waste can be taken to one of the city’s three household waste and recycling centres (HWRC) where many unwanted items can also be donated for sale in Reuse shops.
Real Christmas trees can be recycled by being chopped up and put in the brown bin, or taken whole to your nearest HWRC at Burma Drive, Sutton Fields and Wiltshire Road.
Hull’s household waste and recycling centres will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day and will be open from 10am to 4pm on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
At all other times, the centres are open from 10am to 5pm, seven days a week.
