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Published on: 27/07/2016 09:39 AMReported by: roving-eye
From 1 August 2016 Sefton will be making some changes to the current bin and recycling service. The day or week cycle of your recycling and waste collections might change.
Residents will receive a letter explaining all the changes and a new collection calendar in July 2016. You can access your collection dates at any time on the website.
Brown Wheelie Bin
The brown bin/woven sack collection
Plastic bottle and card collections will be combined with recycling
All paper, plastic bottles, cardboard, glass bottles, jars, cans and tins will go in the brown bin or hessian sack
This will replace the green box and blue bag collections which will end on 29 July 2016
We will no longer collect any textiles or shoes, please use locally delivered charity recycling sacks, charity shop donations and textile banks.
Food Waste Image
The food waste collection
This will change to a fortnightly service. We will be providing free food waste bags during July and August 2016.
These changes will make it easier to recycle more and are due to the end of the contract with Palm Recycling.
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Username2016 says:27/07/2016 01:13 PM
Originally Posted by roving-eye
The brown bin/woven sack collection
We will no longer collect any textiles or shoes, please use locally delivered charity recycling sacks, charity shop donations and textile banks.
The food waste collection
This will change to a fortnightly service. We will be providing free food waste bags during July and August 2016. These changes will make it easier to recycle more and are due to the end of the contract with Palm Recycling.
It's not exactly obvious how the changes will make it easier to recycle more as:
1) service is reduced as less is taken
2) service is reduced as food waste is taken less
So, if it's cost savings without improvement of service then the council should just say so rather than spin it to being of our benefit. It's better to not have the extra crate and bag kicking around but it's not "easier" to recycle in my view.
Garden waste every three weeks is too infrequent, it should be seasonal with the card/other aspects and one of the advantages of food waste recycling is less goes to landfill, having either too much or two weeks of mouldy food putting them off will reduce this benefit.
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BigC says:27/07/2016 10:25 PM
What I do not understand is why did the collection day have to change and why did they cock up the cycle?
Brown bin was collected today, and will now be collected again next Tuesday, meaning general rubbish will have been stood festering in the black bin for just under 3 weeks.
I'm guessing the true answer to my question is that it's just more Sefton Council incompetence and bad planning!
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