 Last blue bags before collection changes
A final roll of 20 blue general rubbish bags will be delivered to most households in the borough over the six weeks between Monday 12 February and Friday 22 March. You can look up your blue bag delivery date on our website.
These bags are to cover the period from April until mid-August, when we will start collecting your rubbish from a 180-litre black wheeled bin every fortnight. The wheeled bins will be delivered to households moving to the new service from late May onwards, but it shouldn't be used straight away.
You should continue putting out your rubbish in a blue bag until mid August. Also, keep using an average of one blue bag per week, so they won't run out before the changes take effect.
A new, informative leaflet will be delivered with the blue bags to explain the changes in detail and provide helpful tips on how to get ready and to recycle more. You can also find out more on our website:
Some households are staying put
We've carried out a borough-wide survey to work out which households are not suitable for the new collections. They include:
- Flats with communal bin stores
- Properties with no space at all for wheeled bins
- Those on narrow lanes which regular waste collection vehicles cannot get to
These households will not be moving to the new service, and their rubbish and recycling collections will continue to be weekly.
If you're living in a flat with a communal bin store that has wheeled bins, you can use any plastic bags to put out your rubbish, so you won't be receiving blue bags from us.
If you've living in the other two types of properties above, you will receive a roll of 54 blue rubbish bags, the same as last year, to last you for one year from April.
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