Collection days & bank holidays
Please leave your refuse and recycling on the edge of your property by 7am (as collection times can vary) and no earlier than the night before.
To look up your collection days, click on the area below:
Mendip
Sedgemoor
South Somerset (enter postcode in YOUR AREA)
Taunton Deane
West Somerset
Revised collection days for Bank and Public holidays
For single bank holidays, such as those in May and August, all collections (including clinical waste) will be one day later than usual, for example, Monday collections on Tuesday and Friday collections on Saturday.
There are no garden waste collections in the two weeks following Christmas.
A revised collections time-table following bank holidays in 2012/13 is available to download: 2013 bank holiday poster with Christmas (pdf 21 kB).
No change to subsequent dates, all collections resume on usual days. Revised collection days above also apply to clinical waste collections.
May and August Bank Holidays 2013
| Usual collection day | Revised collection day |
| May Day 6 May – Friday | All collections one day later, including pick-ups on Saturday 11 May |
| Spring Bank Holiday 27 May – Friday 31 May | All collections one day later, including pick-ups on Saturday 1 June |
| Summer 26 August – 30 August | All collections one day later, including Friday pick-ups on Saturday 31 August |
Christmas and New Year 2013/14
| Usual collection day | Revised collection day |
| Monday 23 December 13 | No change, usual collections |
| Tuesday 24 December 13 | No change, usual collections |
| Wednesday 25 December 13 | Friday 27 December 13 |
| Thursday 26 December 13 | Saturday 28 December 13 |
| Friday 27 December 13 | Sunday 29 December 13 |
| Monday 30 December 13 | No change, usual collections |
| Tuesday 31 December 13 | No change, usual collections |
| Wednesday 1 January 14 | Thursday 2 January 2014 |
| Thursday 2 January 14 | Friday 3 January 2014 |
| Friday 3 January 14 | Saturday 4 January 2014 |
In severe weather, check our website or local radio for information.
Recycling Centres and Community Recycling Sites
Visit our Recycling Centre opening times page or call Somerset Direct on 0845 345 9188 for recycling site opening times. All sites are closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
Disposing of your natural Christmas trees
Natural Christmas trees under 6ft can be collected. If you pay for garden waste collections you can put them out on your normal garden waste collection day, next to your bin or sack, for composting or alternatively take undecorated natural trees to Recycling Centre.
Otherwise put out undecorated natural Christmas trees out on your normal refuse collection day between 6 and 17 January 2014 for disposal. Place the tree next to your bin or sack. Remove all decorations.
