The festive season is great for many things, but it can produce more rubbish than any other time of the year.
From food packaging, to wrapping paper and toy boxes, Christmas often leaves recycling bins overflowing across the county.
So it is useful that Northamptonshire’s nine tips are open intermittently during the festive period and New Year, however the county council’s warning that centres are extremely busy is still in place.
The council is asking visitors to consider if the trip is necessary and is also still warning that centres may have to close temporarily during the day to disperse traffic.
For the most part, the recycling centres are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and their usual closure days.
And if they are open on Christmas Eve, the tips will close early at 2pm.
The opening times for all nine of Northamptonshire’s tips during the Christmas period are listed below.
1. Scaldwell Road, Brixworth
Christmas Eve: 10am - 2pm
Christmas Day: Closed
Boxing Day: Closed
Sunday December 27: 10am - 6pm
Monday December 28: 10am - 6pm
Tuesday December 29: Closed Wednesday December 30: Closed
New Year’s Eve: 10am - 6pm
New Year’s Day: Closed
Saturday January 2, 2021: 10am - 6pm
Sunday January 3, 2021: 10am - 6pm
2. Kettering Road, Corby
Christmas Eve: Closed
Christmas Day: Closed
Boxing Day: Closed
Sunday December 27: 10am - 6pm
Monday December 28: 10am - 6pm
Tuesday December 29: 10am - 6pm
Wednesday December 30: Closed
New Year’s Eve: Closed
New Year’s Day: Closed
Saturday January 2, 2021: 10am - 6pm
Sunday January 3, 2021: 10am - 6pm
3. Browns Road off Staverton Road, Daventry
Christmas Eve: Closed
Christmas Day: Closed
Boxing Day: Closed
Sunday December 27: 10am - 6pm
Monday December 28: 10am - 6pm
Tuesday December 29: 10am - 6pm
Wednesday December 30: Closed
New Year’s Eve: Closed
New Year’s Day: Closed
Saturday January 2, 2021: 10am - 6pm
Sunday January 3, 2021: 10am - 6pm
4. Ecton Lane, Billing
Christmas Eve: 10am-2pm
Christmas Day: Closed
Boxing Day: Closed
Sunday December 27: 10am - 6pm
Monday December 28: 10am - 6pm
Tuesday December 29: Closed
Wednesday December 30: Closed
New Year’s Eve: 10am - 6pm
New Year’s Day: Closed
Saturday January 2, 2021: 10am - 6pm
Sunday January 3, 2021: 10am - 6pm