Find out when your bins will be collected over Christmas and New Year

Homeowners are encouraged to check in with their local authority about any changes to usual schedule over the festive period.

Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton Council is running the least disrupted service across the Black Country with changes only coming to the schedule on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Households which usually have garden waste collected on Christmas Day will have it collected on December 27, with Boxing Day collections scheduled for December 28.

The next recycled waste collection date after Christmas will be January 8 and 9.

• For more info visit the council's website.

Sandwell

Sandwell Council has announced changes throughout Christmas and New Year that will affect a number of residents.

Homeowners expecting bin collections on Christmas Eve will not have to adjust their plans with pick-ups coming as usual.

Bin collections on New Year’s Eve will also take place as usual with no changes planned.

However, pick-ups on every other day between Christmas Day and January 4 will be affected.

Most services will run between one day and three days later than planned, depending on when residents’ usual collection times are.

Locals can find out their normal collection day and whether festive changes affect them by visit the My Sandwell section of the council's website.

The Household Recycling Centre on Shidas Lane, Oldbury, will be open every day of the year except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Dudley

Dudley Council is using a similar system, but the only day that is unaffected will be New Year’s Eve.

Every other day between December 22 and January 4 will have a collection change, with no collections being made on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

The authority says it has sent out leaflets to all borough homes.

Collections will return to normal on January 7.

The household waste sites in Stourbridge and Coseley will also be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

• More on collections here

Walsall

Refuse chiefs in Walsall have warned that collections for their grey and green bins have changed and will affect residents up until the new year.

For Monday collections, grey and green bins will be emptied on December 17 and 31. There will be no collections on Christmas Eve.

If your collection day is Tuesday, grey and green bins will be emptied on December 18 and 28.

There will be no collections on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

For Wednesday collections, grey and green bins will be emptied on December 19 and January 2.

There will be no collections on Boxing Day.

Any residents who usually have Thursday collections, grey and green bins will be emptied on December 20 and January 3.

There will be no collections on December 27.

For Friday collections, grey and green bins will be emptied on December 21 and January 4.

There will be no collections on December 28.

All collections will begin to return to normal from January 7.

Stafford

Stafford Borough Council residents can enter their postcode and see how the timetable changes will affect them by visiting www.staffordbc.gov.uk/collectiondays

The authority has also confirmed that cardboard can be collected on the first scheduled blue bin collection after Christmas.

Local recycling centres can be found by visiting www.staffordshire.gov.uk/recyclingcentres.