Bin collections will change over the Christmas and New Year period from 21 December 2024 to 4 January 2025. All bin collections will be back to the normal collection days from Monday 6 January 2025.
Using the Postcode Search select your property to view your household’s bin collection days on the online calendar, there is also a downloadable version if required.
Please ensure your bins are out for collection by 7.00am on the revised days of collection.
You can also check out our Winter Information and Advice for other services.
Do You Recycle All You Can?
Thank you for making Stafford Borough’s recycling scheme so successful again this year, your continuing support is greatly appreciated.
For further guidance please visit Recycling and Waste - Know Your Bins.
Recycling with your Blue Bin and Blue Bag
Don’t forget that extra cardboard can be taken from beside your blue bin or blue bag. Please ensure that cardboard is broken down to the size of the blue bag and secured - either contained within an un-collapsed box (similar size to the blue bag) or tied together.
Oversized cardboard cannot be taken from beside the blue bin or blue bag and should be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centres at St Albans Road in Stafford or Beacon Road in Stone. In all cases, please ensure that there is no non-cardboard packaging left inside the cardboard e.g. polystyrene or packing materials.
We cannot recycle wrapping paper. Please place wrapping paper that you do not intend to reuse in your green bin. The waste in your green bin is burned to generate electricity for the National Grid. More information about where the contents of your bins go.
Recycling with your Brown Bin
The brown bin service is a subscription service and your brown bin will not be emptied unless you have signed up and are displaying the correct brown bin permit on your bin.
Please ensure that only compostable garden waste and real Christmas trees, that are cut into small pieces, are placed in the brown bin. Your bin(s) will not be emptied if they contain unsuitable material.
You can now sign up or renew your brown bin permits for 2025.
Further details and sign up information
Christmas Tree Recycling
You don’t need to have a brown bin to recycle your real Christmas tree. You can take your tree to the following sites between Monday 6 January 2025 and Monday 13 January 2025 to be collected and recycled:-
- Fletcher's Garden Centre, Eccleshall, ST21 6JY
- The Allotments Car Park, Gnosall
- The Green Recycling Centre, Barlaston
Trees can also be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centres at St Albans Road site in Stafford or Beacon Road in Stone. Christmas and New Year opening times for recycling centres (Staffordshire County Council).
You can also donate to Katharine House Hospice. Katharine House, working together with Just Helping, run a Christmas tree collection service (just-helping) with the money raised from donations being used to support the Hospice.
Adverse Weather
Information and advice for residents in the event of service disruption caused by adverse weather.
Household Waste Recycling Centres
For further information about the Household Waste Recycling Centres at St Albans Road, Stafford and Beacon Road, Stone please see Recycling centres (Staffordshire County Council)
Waste Minimisation
Don’t forget you can recycle textiles, small electrical items and batteries by placing them in bags beside either your green or blue bin. Please do not dispose of used batteries in your blue bin.
- Textile and Clothing Collection
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Collection and Used Household Batteries
Further advice on minimising waste over the festive period:-