Rubbish and Recycling

Managing Our Refuse

Dear Members

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A polite reminder to manage our refuse correctly during these difficult times. The Council teams have been doing a remarkable job operating with skeleton staff to keep our collections on schedule, and to empty the public bins on streets and in parks.  At the same time, the Sea Gulls are becoming more aggressive as they can’t find food in the town centre and move up the hill to neighbouring areas like Lansdown to attack our bags on refuse nights. 

This means that the Gulls are getting into waste bags which have food in them and leaving a lot of waste across our streets. Whilst Committee members help clear our streets and litter pick, could residents notice whether or not their individual refuse has been “vandalised” by Gulls and if so kindly tidy it to keep our neighbourhood clean. The Council don’t have the capacity currently to send their street cleansing teams to do this for us.

Many thanks.

Garden Waste Collections Restarting on 27th April

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We will be restarting fortnightly garden waste collections from Monday 27 April. The garden waste collections were stopped temporarily to prioritise recycling and black bin waste collections from households during this difficult time, and we thank you for your patience.

We will do our best to run a normal service, but please keep an eye on the website for any updates if your bin is not collected. Please ensure your bin is out by 7am on your normal garden waste collection day.

Please make sure your bin is not too heavy and can easily be wheeled to the kerbside and residents are reminded that soil should not be placed in the garden waste bin.

We will be extending the annual subscription period for garden waste bins. Existing garden waste stickers will now be valid until 18th July 2020 to make up for the missed collections.

Waste Services