When you are getting your house ready for your spring clean, remember that any garden waste you have can be taken to the local Household Recycling Centre. You can take timber, builder’s rubble and even plants to the centres in Haslingfield for composting. These centres are open every day of the year except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. The centre in Flitch Way is only open on Mondays and Thursdays. The other centres in Haslingfield and Bottisham are open every day but Tuesday.

The Cambridge and Huntingdon household rubbish, recycling and garden waste collection dates are shown below. Yellow stickers will be delivered to the door of connected properties outlining your bin collection day at the start of each calendar year. These must be displayed in a prominent position by the kerbside so that the bin men can see them. The Council will collect your green refuse and recycling bins from outside your home. If it’s too big or too heavy to lift easily, please place it next to your bin for collection.

Are you closing your home for over three days? If your rubbish isn’t collected, make sure you put the bin out on the day before you return home and we will collect it from there. Your refuse must be in a shed or garage or on a hard standing surface away from vehicles or planting boxes. To have your garden waste collected as refuse in March, it must be no more than 1. 2m tall and weigh less than 25kg.