Christmas 2025

We'll collect extra waste on the first refuse collection after Christmas. Please leave it in bags next to your black bin. Please do not leave excess food waste in liners or other bags next to your caddy or bin. Items such as the turkey carcass must be in bags inside your outdoor caddy. 

You can leave cardboard next to your recycling bin at any time as long as it is no bigger than 70cm x 70cm, flattened, clean, dry and loose. You can leave also leave extra recycling out at any time next to your recycling bin in a CLEAR bin bag. 

We provide glass collection crates free of charge for kerbside collection of glass. You can request multiple crates and leave these out for collection if needed.  If you have more glass than can fit in your crates, please save this for your next collection as we cannot collect overfilled crates or glass left not in a crate.  

If you'd like to collect a crate rather than order online, they are available from:

• Hart District Council Civic Offices, Harlington Way, Fleet GU51 4AE
• Hook Parish Council, Community Centre, Ravenscroft RG27 9NN
• Yateley Town Council, Reading Road GU46 7RP
• Elvetham Heath Parish Council, The Key Centre, The Keys, Fleet GU51 1HA

Please don't put shredded paper in your recycling bin. We will take greetings cards and gift tags in recycling but only if these don't have glitter on. You should remove any sticky tape or ribbon and make sure cards containing batteries don't end up in the bin.

Wrapping paper cannot be recycled, unless it is plain brown paper. Wrapping paper is often dyed, laminated and/or contains non-paper additives such as gold and silver-coloured shapes, glitter, and plastics, which cannot be recycled.

New electric toothbrush for Christmas? Hand blender finally given up? Don't forget you can leave small electricals out for collection with either of your bins. Place them in a plastic bag on top of the bin to be picked up. 

If you received a new electrical item for Christmas please consider donating the old one if still working so it can be reused. Find out about our small electricals recycling service. 

If you have a real Christmas tree and subscribe to our garden waste collection service, you can leave this out for recycling with your green waste collection when this restarts in January.

If you don't subscribe to the garden waste collection service we have eight free Christmas tree recycling points across the district. These will be available from Friday 2 January to Saturday 31 January 2026. You can find these in the following locations:

• Blackwater – Memorial Hall, Hawley Green (in car park at rear) GU17 9BW

• Crondall – Bowling Alley (on grass opposite junction with Pankridge Street) GU10 5RL

• Edenbrook – Country Park Car Park, The Brambles, Fleet GU51 5DW

• Ewshot – Village Hall, Tadpole Lane GU10 5BX

• Fleet – Church Road Car Park GU51 4ND

• Hook – Crossway Manor Car Park, Reading Road (opposite the White Hart Pub) RG27 9DU

• Odiham – Colt Hill (in lay-by at very end of London Road) RG29 1AL

• Yateley – Town Council Offices, Reading Road GU46 7RP
   

These points are for real Christmas trees only. Please don’t take artificial trees, decorations, or trees over 1.8 m (they can be cut in half).

The trees collected are then transformed into ProGrow Soil conditioner for gardens and wood chippings for our parks.