Changes are coming to waste collection days next year

Last month we announced that collection days for rubbish and recycling will be changing for many households next year.

The changes will happen in two stages: starting in February for around 85% of homes. Covering the former Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton areas, and a small part of South Somerset.

The second stage begins in June (for the rest of the county), in the former Mendip and South Somerset areas.

Residents may have:

• a change to collection day
• a change in week that their rubbish is collected (rubbish is still collected one in three weeks and recycling weekly)
• a one-off interim rubbish collection

There will be no changes to:

• collection days for garden waste subscribers
• clinical waste collections
• communal property collections with shared collections (such as blocks of flats, houses of multiple occupancy and retirement developments)
• schools waste collections

If you’re day is changing, you’ll receive a letter in January, and about three weeks later you will also receive a service guide which includes a collection day calendar for the next 18 months.

If you’re days aren’t changing you’ll just receive the collection calendar.

People in phase two won’t hear from us until late spring – please carry on with your usual schedule.

Head to the reroute of waste collections webpage for more details.