Look out for your letter!

Households in the former Mendip and South Somerset areas with changes to their collection day, will receive a letter next week to explain what’s happening.

These changes have already happened in the east of the county and aim to make our collections more efficient and cost-effective, with reduced emissions; fewer trucks on the road and reduced mileage.

Not every household will be affected. If you don’t get a letter then your day will stay the same.

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, if your rubbish collection week changes

Please note, 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 your day is changing you’ll receive a letter in May. About three weeks later you will receive a service guide which includes a collection day calendar for the next 12 months.

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

The reroute and all postal communications have come at no additional cost to Somerset Council.