Southport Household Waste Recycling Centre, among all 14 across Merseyside and Halton, will be CLOSED every day for the next two weeks due to strike action.
The facilities including at Southport, on Foul Lane in Kew, are open until 5pm today (Christmas Eve) but will then be shut as normal on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, followed by a long period of closure.
More closures will take place later in January, with substantial queues of traffic expected on the few dates in between when the sites will reopen for the mountains of Christmas waste building up.
Merseyside Recycling & Waste Authority (MRWA) and its contractor Veolia have posted a statement on their website saying: “Due to industrial action Household Waste Recycling Centres in Merseyside and Halton will be closed from Tuesday 27 December 2022 up to and including Saturday 7 January 2023.
“Further industrial action is planned from Sunday 15 January up to and including Saturday 21 January 2023.
“We apologise for any inconvenience this might cause.”
During the Winter, Merseyside and Halton Household Waste Recycling Centres are open between 8am and 5pm.
This extends to 8am-8pn during the Summer (1st April – 30th September).
Many items are accepted at Recycling Centres such as cans, cardboard, garden waste (including real Christmas trees), glass jars and bottles, paper, large plastics, scrap metal (including metal artificial trees), textiles, toys and white goods. All the Centres accept electrical items, don’t forget to remove any batteries and recycle them separately.
As the Centres are particularly busy at this time of year, MRWA and Veolia are asking householders to, if possible, consider the following:
- Try and separate your waste before visiting your local Recycling Centre. This way you’ll be able to deposit things more easily and help reduce queues at sites.
- Remove polystyrene and flatten cardboard boxes before placing them into the recycling container – it will take up less room.
- Don’t fly-tip your waste outside a Recycling Centre as this is illegal and you could be fined or prosecuted.
- If using a van or large trailer, you will need to pre-book your visit at www.merseysidewda.gov.uk
- Wrapping paper can be recycled using your local council’s kerbside recycling bin, bag or box and at your local Household Waste Recycling Centre.
- If your wrapping paper has a decorative / shiny / glossy / glittery surface it should be disposed of in your local council’s kerbside residual bin.
- Please don’t bring us plastic bags – try to reuse them as much as possible and next time you go shopping why not buy a bag-for-life?
- Avoid putting recyclable items in your black ‘residual’ bin bags. If you cut down on this then there’ll be less chance you’ll have excess black bin bags to bring to your HWRC.
- Bring your cans and bottles – millions of extra drinks cans and bottles are used during the festive period!
- After Christmas you can bring your real Christmas trees to our Recycling Centres where they’ll be shredded and turned into chippings for compost.
- An excess of oil is used over the Christmas period, with festive food such as turkey, roast potatoes and fry-ups on the menu. Used cooking oil tanks can be found at all Recycling Centres in Merseyside.
- If there are items like toys, electrical items, bric-a-brac you don’t need after Christmas, you could donate them to local charity shops or community groups.
- Households with COVID-19 symptoms should leave waste for at least 72 hours before disposal. Personal waste should be safely double bagged.
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