 Bin collections start earlier due to extreme heat
As the Met Office has issued an extreme heat warning, our crews are collecting your waste and recycling an hour earlier at 5:30am during Wednesday to Friday this week (10 to 12 Aug).
We hope the earlier start will protect our crews from the extreme heat.
Please put your waste and recycling out the night before your collection day to avoid being missed.
Thank you for your cooperation in supporting our crews.
You can check your waste collection day on our website, if needed.
 Keep knives out of bin bags
A kitchen knife has recently been found in a resident’s general waste bag. Our crew spotted it before the bag was loaded onto the waste truck, and no one was hurt.
Knives in the general waste or recycling bags can cut or injure our crews, so they must be properly disposed of.
Like other metal, all unwanted knives can be recycled. Please bring them to the re3 household recycling centre (tip) in Reading or Bracknell. Knives, including those with a non-metal handle, should be placed in the container for ‘scrap metal’.
Blades of the knives don’t need to be wrapped before recycling, but for your own safety, be careful when you carry them to the tip.
Make a booking to visit the household recycling centres on re3 website.
 Lock your food waste bin
We’ve heard from some residents that their food waste bin is sometimes rummaged by animals at night when they are put out the day before collection, creating a mess on the street.
The best way to avoid this from happening is to lock your food waste bin properly whenever it is outside. Put the long arm of the bin all the way to the front to its lock position. In that way, animals are unable to open it.
 Donate unwanted school uniforms
Many school uniform items, such as shirts, dresses, and trousers, are made from a mixture of materials including polyester or acrylic - which are 100 per cent plastic. That means, they can take many decades to break down if they are thrown away and sent to a landfill.
If you have any unneeded or outgrown school uniforms, consider donating them or giving them to friends, schoolmates, or their siblings.
The local charity First Days accepts donations of school uniforms for primary and secondary schools in Wokingham and distributes them to people who need them. Items like PE kit, school shoes, trainers, rucksacks, water bottles and uniforms with school logos can be brought to First Days headquarters in Molly Millars Lane, Wokingham on their Donation Days.
Find out more and book an appointment to donate on the First Days website.
 Report fly-tipping online
Did you know you can report fly-tipping on our website?
If your information results in a successful prosecution, you will receive a gift card of your choice to the value of £100.
Recently, a man from Woodley was caught fly-tipping a bag of paint tins and cans in a public car park. A witness watched the man fly-tip a black bin bag and took a photo of the van and its number plate. The witness then contacted our anti-social behaviour team to provide them with the evidence.
Our team worked with Thames Valley Police to trace the van’s registration plate to an address in Woodley. The perpetrator was presented with the evidence and issued with a £400 fixed penalty notice.
If you see any suspicious acts of fly-tipping, take note of what you see and report it to us so we can investigate it further. All information provided is treated in confidence.
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