Kiama Council is spreading some extra Christmas cheer by offering residents an additional garbage (red lid bin) collection.

Demand for waste services can be high over the Christmas-New Year period so Council is encouraging residents to take advantage of this service.

Further information about regular collection dates can be found by inputting your address on Council's Find my bin collection date webpage.

The extra collection details will be in these areas on these dates:

Zone 1– extra red lid bin collection on Monday 22 December

Zone 2 – extra red lid bin collection on Monday 29 December

Zone 3 - extra red lid bin collection on Tuesday 23 December

Zone 4 - extra red lid bin collection on Tuesday 30 December

Zone 5 - extra red lid bin collection on Wednesday 24 December

Zone 6 - extra red lid bin collection on Wednesday 31 December

Zone 7 - extra red lid bin collection on Friday 26 December

Zone 8 - extra red lid bin collection on Friday 26 December

Zone 9 - extra red lid bin collection on Saturday 27 December

Zone 10 - extra red lid bin collection on Saturday 27 December

Rural Zone 11 - extra red lid bin collection on Tuesday 23 December.

Rural Zone 12 - extra red lid bin collection on Wednesday 24 December.

Council is also reminding residents that for problem household wastes such as batteries, cardboard, computers, televisions, paints, light globes, mobile phones, textiles, batteries, gas bottles, fire extinguishers and smoke detectors, they should be dropped off at the Community Recycling Centre (CRC), located at the Minnamurra Waste and Recycling Facility.

The CRC facility will be closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

To dispose of live Christmas trees, residents are urged to cut them up and place them in their green lid bin with other FOGO waste.

Artificial Christmas trees should be placed in red lid bins as they are not recyclable.