Over the years as the Council has introduced different recycling and collection schemes we have ended up with a system where you put one box out one day another on another day and your garden waste on a third. In certain areas different boxes were also put out in differing locations.

The first step was to get all residents to put all collections out to the same spot. The next step was to have been to move to same day collection in the autumn of 2007. However the current Conservative administration put that back a year and a half and it will now be happening this summer, from the 8th June 2009 – although the cardbaord / green waste service will remain fortnightly.

This is good news for us all as we now have all collections done on the same day. As a bonus this step also has the side effect of increasing recycling rates by about 6%. More information on this move can be found at here.

We will keep you regularly updated on this important change.