Westminster City Council confirms all the bin collection date changes for Christmas and New Year

The council said there will be no kerbside collection on Christmas Day, which is a Thursday. Residents whose regular bin day is a Thursday will instead have a special collection on Saturday, December 27.

There are no changes to collections on Boxing Day or New Year’s Day. If you have multiple collections a week for mixed recycling or household rubbish, you will not receive a special collection on Saturday, December 27. Instead, residents are being advised to use other regular collections that week.

There will be no on-demand food waste service on Christmas Day. This impacts residents living in suitable properties in St James’s, Marylebone and West End wards.

Collection slots are available as normal for all other days during the festive period. Residents are being urged to use local neighbourhood food waste bins located in:

• Luxborough Street junction with Marylebone Road
• Marylebone High Street (next to The St Marylebone CE School/Cavendish Health Centre) micro-recycling centre
• Marylebone Road opposite Council House/outside Old Town Hall
• Moxon Street junction with Aybrook Street
• Paddington Street, opposite Paddington Street Gardens/Chiltern Place, micro-recycling centre
• Weymouth Street junction with Great Portland Street (157 Weymouth Street) micro-recycling centre
• Wigmore Street junction with Welbeck Street

Recycling your real Christmas tree

Residents looking to get rid of their real Christmas tree are being urged to visit any of the borough’s more than 25 recycling points. You can find a list of these drop-off points at the bottom of this article.

You can take your tree to a drop-off point from Saturday, December 27, to the end of the day on Sunday, January 11, 2026. Opening hours are 8am to 8pm unless they are in parks, which close at 4.30pm, according to Westminster City Council’s website .

Remove all decorations, stands and netting from the tree before bringing it to a recycling point. Trees taken to recycling points will be turned into woodchip and soil improver.

There will be no garden waste collections on Christmas Eve or on New Year’s Eve. If you want your real Christmas tree to be collected, leave it outside if you:

• Live in Queen’s Park ward and have already signed up to the garden waste trial and your collection date is Wednesday, January 7 only
• Live in Abbey Road ward and have already signed up to the garden waste trial and your collection date is Wednesday, January 14 only

Crews will only collect trees up to 10 feet in size. All decorations must be removed and the tree placed next to your garden waste sacks.

Recycling points

• Hamilton Terrace, Abercorn Place, NW8
• St John’s Wood Road, Cunningham Place, NW8
• St. Stephen’s Gardens, junction with Westbourne Park Road, W2
• Penfold Street, on the junction with Broadley Street next to the existing recycling bins, NW8
• Hyde Park Crescent, outside St John’s Church, W2
• Eaton Square, junction with Eccleston Street, one way going north towards Belgrave Square on the right hand side, SW1
• Rutland Gate, at the top of the garden nearest the junction with Gate Mews, SW7
• Hallfield Estate, outside the Hallfield Junior School, on grassy area, W2
• Warwick Avenue, Rembrandt Gardens, W2
• Warwick Avenue, on the pavement in the middle of the road, opposite the taxi rank by recycling site, W9
• Carlton Vale, next to recycling site by entrance to Paddington Recreation Ground, NW6
• Grantully Road, on the junction with Ashworth Road next to the existing paper/card recycling bin, W9
• Bryanston Square, north east corner, W1
• Montagu Square, south east corner, W1
• Paddington Street, Paddington Street Gardens, north side of the gardens, to the left of the entrance, W1
• Charlwood Street, on the junction with Denbigh Street next to the existing recycling bins, SW1
• Churchill Gardens Estate, next to the mixed recycling bins on Churchill Garden Road, between Sullivan House and Sheraton House, SW1
• Ashmore Road, near junction with Kilburn Lane, grassy area inside St Luke’s Church via side gate, W9
• Ilbert Street, junction with Fourth Avenue by the entrance to the park, W10
• Lisson Grove, junction with Rossmore Road next to the existing recycling bins, NW8
• Queen’s Terrace, off Queen’s Grove, NW8
• Prince Albert Road, on the junction with Culworth Street, NW8
• Erasmus Street, junction with Cureton Street by micro-recycling centre site, SW1
• Great Western Road, opposite junction with Tavistock Road by micro-recycling centre site, W2
• Harrow Road, opposite Maryland Road next to the existing micro-recycling site recycling bins, W9
• Cavendish Square, on the pavement near existing recycling site, W1
• Soho Square, east entrance to the square next to the existing recycling bins, W1