Changes to waste collection days – look out for your letter

You may have a letter from us land on your doorstep this week – if you receive one it means that your recycling and rubbish collection day is changing next month.

If you don’t get a letter, your day will be staying the same.

Being brought in by our contractor (Suez recycling and recovery UK) the changes will make rounds more efficient, more manageable for crews whilst reducing mileage and carbon emissions. They come at no cost to the council.

The changes will happen in two phases. In February around 85% of homes will have a new collection day in the former Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton areas, and a small part of South Somerset.

You may have:

• a change to collection day
• a change in week that your rubbish is collected (rubbish is still collected every three weeks and recycling weekly)

You may also have an additional one-off Saturday collection of your rubbish on either 10, 17 or 24 February. This will be made clear in your letter.

All homes, in phase one – whether or not you are having a change in collection day - will receive a service guide later in the month which includes a collection day calendar for the next 18 months.

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

For the rest of the county, the second phase will begin in June (in the former Mendip and South Somerset areas). 

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.