RUBBISH and recycling collections will be delayed due to the upcoming bank holiday.

Somerset Council has confirmed there will be no collections on bank holiday Monday, with kerbside collections coming one day later than usual for the rest of the week.

“If your recycling and/or rubbish is usually collected on a Monday, then it will be collected on a Tuesday, if your usual day is a Tuesday it will be collected on Wednesday and so on,” a spokesperson said.

Collections due on Friday will be on Saturday (June 1), they added.

“With waste collections a day later a higher volume of waste is likely,” the spokesperson said.

“Squashing, crushing and flattening waste can help to reduce the number of trips that teams need to make to empty their trucks, as well as creating more space in resident’s containers.”

Recycling sites across the county will be open as usual at the weekend, from 9am to 4pm and, if opening on a Monday is part of their normal opening pattern, they will be open on Bank Holiday Monday, from 9am to 6pm.

For full opening details and a full list of what can be recycled, visit www.somerset.gov.uk/waste.