Most of the deliveries will be in June and early July.

See our Delivery info page for up to date information on the roll out.

No this initial bin to every household if free of charge.

The standard size bin will be 240 litres which is 60 litres larger than your standard refuse and food and garden bin and will take up to 6 old recycling sacks of material. Please place all your recycling waste in loose and crush down plastic bottles and tins.

Yes you can start using your new bin immediately.

All the same materials that went into your clear recycling sack and blue box.

See our Check what you can put in your bins page.

Yes you will need to fold them flat and place them by your recycling bin for collection.

It will start the week commencing 2 June, deliveries will take place according to complete collection days.

There is no change to your current collection day. Your blue recycling bin will be collected fortnightly.

You can use up any clear recycling sacks you have as long as they are placed in your blue-lidded recycling bin. Collections from blue boxes will stop once you have your new bin.

No, you do not need to return your blue box and clear recycling sacks. You can keep your old recycling blue box to use for storage. If you do not want to keep it, put it out with your black bin collection or take it to your local recycling centre.

You can use unused recycling sacks to put recycling in and then place it all in your new blue-lidded recycling bin. We don’t advise you use them as storage bags as they are bio-degradeable and can start degrading in as little as a year.

No, you will need to remove the contaminated material and represent your recycling bin on your next collection day. You may be able to book a contaminated clearance collection at a charge payable in advance.

No, you will not get another bin delivered to you.

You can let us know. If your property meets council criteria through assessment as outlined in the Exemption to wheeled bins policy you will be exempt from using a wheeled bin for recycling.

It is important to note that services / bins will be prioritised as follows:

1. Refuse  (black bin)
2. Recycling (blue-lidded bin)
3. Food and garden (green-lidded bin)

Residents will not be able to choose what bins they have or don’t have under the exemption. They will be allocated in the order as above.

Where a food and garden bin is withdrawn we will issue a kerbside food caddy for food waste.

From September if you think you will need a larger or smaller bin you can contact us to arrange this.

The costs of plastic sacks continue to rise and puts pressure on the council tax. It is a tidier method of collection that reduces the possibility of spillage.

A 240 litre wheeled bin will take the equivalent of up to 6 recycling sacks as long as the materials are loose and plastic bottles and tins are crushed down. If you keep ending up with more recycling than you can get into your bin, let us know after September and we will give you a larger bin.

No, after your first blue-lidded bin collection no side waste will be collected. All recycling must be put in the wheeled bin.