THE county council have announced that there will be no recycling or rubbish collections taking place on Bank Holiday Monday, August 25.

Collection days will change across Somerset following the bank holiday.

If opening on a Monday is part of the Recycling Site’s opening days, then it will be open as usual from 9am to 6pm on Bank Holiday Monday.

All collections will move back one day. If a resident's usual collection day is Monday, it will now take place on Tuesday. Tuesday collections will be moved to Wednesday, Wednesday collections to Thursday, and so on. For those who usually have a Friday collection, their collection will be rescheduled to Saturday, August 30.

To help manage the increased volume of recycling, the council are encouraging residents to make extra space in their recycling boxes by crushing and flattening their recyclables.

For more information about what can be collected for recycling and to check a collection day visit: www.somerset.gov.uk/waste