The city has issued trash and recycling information for holiday partiers, including its regulations and accommodations for “extra holiday trash” such as Christmas trees.

During the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s Day, the city’s Solid Waste Department will be open Mondays – that is, Dec. 24 and Dec. 31.

It will be closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, and operations will resume Wednesday of each week.

The city will operate with a normal collection schedule for the Monday curbside pickup routes, and the Four Hills Landfill/Nashua Recycling Center will be open its usual hours of 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Curbside collections will be one day late for Tuesday through Friday routes; Tuesday routes will be picked up on Wednesday, and so forth, through Saturday.

All containers must be curbside by 6:45 a.m. on collection day, and the trash cart and anything else must be at least three feet apart.

The week between Christmas and New Year’s, the Solid Waste Department will pick up any extra holiday trash that doesn’t fit into trash carts. It must be in bags or barrels, and must be placed at least three feet from the cart.

Collection is limited to excess holiday household trash, and doesn’t include bulky items or household clean-outs. Extra trash pickup will run Dec. 26-31.

The city is advising residents to recycle cardboard from gift boxes and corrugated boxes. It must be flattened and cut down to not exceed 30- by 30-inch pieces.

Most wrapping paper can be put in the recycling bin, but foil papers aren’t accepted.

Extra bins – not barrels – may be used for recycling, and will be picked up on regularly scheduled collection weeks.

Weather permitting, Christmas trees will be picked up curbside from Jan. 7-18.

They shouldn’t be put into plastic bags and won’t be picked up if stuck in ice or snow or placed on top of a snowbank.

– MARYALICE GILL