CITY of York Council is reminding residents when collections will take place over the festive period.

To prevent a build up of rubbish all households will receive a rubbish collection the week before and the week after Christmas. However, household recycling and rubbish collections will not take place from 22 December to 26 December.

All households which are due a rubbish or recycling collection on Thursday January 1 will receive a rubbish collection on Saturday January 3 instead, but there will be no recycling collections on this day.

The council has also added a further garden waste collection between 19 and 30 January to pick up out of season garden waste and collect any remaining autumn waste and Christmas trees. Collection dates can be found on-line at www.york.gov.uk/refuselookup and will be advertised.

City centre properties serviced by St Nicks recycling team will not receive collections on December 25 and 26 or January 1.

All properties will receive detailed festive collection information in early December.

Collections times can vary over the Christmas period and crews are unable to return for rubbish or recycling that is not put out by this time.

The council will collect extra recycling from households’ in their scheduled collections in the New Year and residents are asked to present their extra recycling (extra paper, cardboard, plastic bottle/cans and glass) in separate open bags or boxes. Recycling can also be taken to local recycling banks and the Household Waste Recycling Centres. For more details please visit www.york.gov.uk/recycling.