New year, new skip? How will you clear the Christmas waste hangover?

The Christmas to New Year period is generally one of bedlam, over-indulgence and an accumulation of more rubbish than you’ve probably dealt with throughout the preceding twelve months! Well, maybe not that much, but it often feels like it.

And the most popular place that people visit between Christmas and New Year? The tip! Probably.

Yes, the most eager rubbish-removal-nominated family members are at the gates of the local tip as they open on their first day after Christmas (when they would rather be doing something more fun!). After that, it’s carnage. Only the most tenacious and determined players of the Tip After Christmas game find the resolve they never even knew they had to wait it out before finally getting their slot.

If this is sending chills down your spine, perhaps it’s time to ditch the tip and hire a skip instead. It would certainly remove the need for multiple trips to the tip as each group of visitors departs, or to dispose of excess packaging from the presents or new January sales furniture that you’ve finally got around to building.

1^st Choice Concrete and Skip Hire is here to save your Christmas… and New Year!

Christmas and New Year rubbish you can put in a skip

The amount of waste generated over Christmas and New Year is excessive to say the least, particularly when compared to the rest of the year. According to packaging manufacturers GW Group, UK households discard an additional 30% of waste throughout the festive period, equating to approximately 3 million tonnes, while £42 million of unwanted Christmas gifts are sent to landfill annually.

More alarmingly, the UK generates around 125,000 tonnes of plastic packaging over the Christmas period. We use 227,000 miles of wrapping paper, of which 108 million roles end up in bins, and more than 100 million bags of rubbish are sent to landfill each Christmas.

These behaviours are clearly not friendly to the environment!

Using a skip for your festive rubbish clearance guarantees that any recyclable packaging you throw away will be handled sustainably and ethically, without you having to do the legwork. No rubbish and a clear conscience to boot!

So let’s consider the festive rubbish you could put in a 1^st Choice skip:

• Wrapping paper
• Boxes and other cardboard
• Bottles
• Cans
• Food packaging
• Christmas cards
• Christmas trees – natural and artificial
• Plastic waste
• Old toys that cannot be taken to charity shops
• Any items that have been replaced by new gifts
• Unwanted gifts? (Yes, we went there! Although we’d hope you’d find a way of regifting those!).

This list alone can represent a huge amount of waste per household and several trips to the tip (which equates to hours of your life you will never get back!). Using a skip will also save you a huge amount of time separating recycling from landfill waste, and give you the peace of mind that your packaging and other waste aren’t adding to already overwhelmed landfill sites.

Hire a skip for a New Year clear out and overdue DIY jobs!

To get even more value from hiring your skip, why not have a New Year clear out too? After Christmas and the New Year sales, many household items are replaced. This is a great opportunity to finally get around to clearing out all the things you keep falling over, or are taking over your garage or attic.

Once you’ve cleared the space, you may then want to prepare for the DIY jobs you’ve been putting off. Use the skip to discard all fixtures, materials and equipment you don’t want, and again save yourself the time and inconvenience of taking them to the tip. You could get rid of bulky junk and old furniture, and even rip out the old bathroom or kitchen.

If you take annual leave during the Christmas and New Year period, this is a great way to make good use of the time you will otherwise spend eating too many chocolates and watching movies you don’t even like.

Skip hire – the festive gift that keeps on giving!

How 1^st Choice Concrete & Skip Hire can help you remove waste over the festive period

1^st Choice Concrete & Skip Hire is a domestic and commercial skip hire company covering all of Merseyside.

Simply book your skip online or call us on 0151 549 1882. We will then deliver your skip, usually within 24 hours although festive hours may impact that, and then we’ll collect the skip when you’ve finished with it.

We have a range of skips available, although our standard 4 yard skip is usually sufficient for household clearances.

In the meantime, from all of the team at 1^st Choice, we wish you a fantastic Christmas and a happy and healthy 2025!