The presents have been opened and the turkey eaten and next comes the big clean-up. If your bins are usually overflowing during the festive period, here’s when you can take a trip to the tip over Christmas.

Along with being “the most wonderful time of the year”, Christmas is also a time of accumulating rubbish and recycling – from wrapping paper to old electrical items, in with the new generally means out with the old.

With all this waste, it’s handy if you can get rid of some of it without having to wait for the next Kerbside collection.

For anyone in the area, you will likely be heading to Weymouth Household Recycling Centre over the holidays.

The site will be running usual opening times throughout the festive period except on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day when it will be closed.

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Weymouth recycling centre Christmas opening times

Weymouth Household Recycling Centre
Where: Preston Beach Road, Weymouth, DT4 7SX

  • Friday, December 24: open 9am to 4pm
  • Saturday, December 25: closed 
  • Sunday, December 26: closed
  • Monday, December 27: open 9am to 4pm
  • Tuesday, December 28: open 9am to 4pm
  • Wednesday, December 29: open 9am to 4pm
  • Thursday, December 30: open 9am to 4pm
  • Friday, December 31: open 9am to 4pm
  • Saturday, January 1: closed

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Items you can take to Weymouth Household Recycling Centre

If you are unsure if you will be able to tip any of your rubbish and recycling - here's a list of what will be accepted.

  • Aerosols
  • Aluminium
  • Asbestos (charges apply)
  • Batteries
  • Cans
  • Books
  • Car Batteries
  • Cardboard
  • Carpet
  • Cartons
  • Christmas Trees (fake)
  • Christmas Trees (real)
  • Cooking Oil
  • Electrical Equipment
  • Engine Oil (limited to 5 litres per visit)
  • Fire Extinguishers (charges apply)
  • Foil
  • Food waste
  • Fridges and Freezers
  • Furniture
  • Garden Waste
  • Gas Bottles (charges apply)
  • Glass (charges may apply for sheets/panels)
  • Hardcore (charges apply)
  • Household and Garden Chemicals Labelled (maximum 5 litres of each chemical)
  • Large domestic appliances
  • Lightbulbs - all types e.g. LED, fluorescent
  • Mattresses
  • Mobile Phones
  • Paint
  • Paper
  • Pillows and duvets
  • Plasterboard (charges apply)
  • Plastic Bottles
  • Printer and toner cartridges
  • Rubble (charges apply)
  • Scrap Metal
  • Small electrical items
  • Soil (charges apply)
  • Textiles
  • Tyres (charges apply)
  • Wallpaper
  • Wood
  • Paper containers with metal ends