 One Blue Bag Challenge
Did you know that about half of the rubbish we throw away in Wokingham Borough could be recycled – much of this, at home, through your kerbside recycling collections.
Food currently makes up almost a quarter of what goes into the average blue waste bag. It doesn't seem like much on its own, but there are more than 75,000 households in the borough so it all adds up - and costs the council over £500,000 a year to dispose of.
We're encouraging our residents to try the One Blue Bag Challenge. If we all only use one blue bag per week for each household, this would significantly reduce the amount of rubbish we send to landfill or burn for energy. If you’re already doing a great job reducing your waste, try challenging yourself to one bag every other week.
Watch our 'One Blue Bag Challenge' video via Youtube to find out more.
 Food and general waste bags delivery
New green food caddy liners and blue general waste bags are being delivered to residents. Starting earlier this month, these will be delivered over a six-week period, with all residents receiving them by mid-March.
More than five million blue bags will be rolling out across the borough over these next few weeks. These are for general waste, with each household receiving 80 bags in two rolls of 40 to cover the period between April 2022 and March 2023.
All households will also receive an allocation of 75 green food waste bags. Please use our food waste service for all food waste.
 Help us catch the culprits
If you see someone fly-tipping, report it immediately via our webpage.
We currently have several fly-tipping instances that you might be able to help with. Visit our fly-tipping webpage to take a look at images of recent reports that we need more information to catch the culprits.
All information is treated in confidence. If the information you provide leads to a successful prosecution, you’ll receive a £100 gift card.
 Sign up for emergency alerts newsletter
We’ve launched a new emergency alerts email newsletter in response to Storm Eunice.
This will be used as required when we have extreme weather, potential flooding and emergency incidents which impact large parts of the borough.
We’ll send you the latest local advice and updates on key services like roads, bins and where to go to get more help.
It will be the newsletter we use to provide multiple updates a day with key information when responding to incidents like the recent storms. You can sign up using the button below.
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