Derbyshire Dales District Council launching a new waste and collection service in August that increases recycling opportunities and saves Council Tax payers £385,000 a year. Although there are changes there will still be a weekly food waste collection. Click here to read the press release.
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That will save me a trip to the recycling centre in Ashbourne, however it does mean I will have to find room for another bin and remember to put another bin out. Oh well you can’t win them all.
There will be three bins, green, black and blue.
Blue bin (New bin) is for recycled waste, cardboard, tins, glass, rigid plastic etc
Green bin – Garden waste
Black Bin – For the residue – what cannot go in any of the other containers
The above will be collected fortnightly
Kerbside caddy (New container) is for food waste and will be collected weekly
Thank you to DDDC for the updates on Waste Collection, given at this evening’s meeting of the Southern Area Community Forum, held in the Memorial Hall.
That’s Graham done for again then!!
Got it in one Cheryl! I’m not sure I can now get out of bed in the morning – is there such a condition as “bin worry”?
Not sure where I’m going to put all these bins – the yard is full already so I guess it’s the front garden. Where do people put all these bins if they live in towns or have small gardens?
I’m happy to find space for a new bin. Finding someplace to put carboard inbetween collections (after they stopped letting us put it in the green bin) was becoming traumatic! Anything to encourage recycling has to be good! (Sorry, Graham!)
Does anyone know if we will be able to put paper in the new blue bin?
So, let me get this straight:
Collections will be as follows:
Week 1:
Monday: Green – all kitchen waste, including egg shells (see also Sunday’s collection), but no chicken bones or olive stones; garden waste: only clippings from the following: Celastraceae, Malvaceae and Rosaceae (see also Thursday’s collection); Black: plastics, but only rigid (see below for rigidity testing *), small broken household items with dimensions not exceeding 37 x 45 x 12 cm, ink cartridges, but not HP colour.
Tuesday: Blue – plastics, only non-rigid * (see below); glass, but no broken beer or white/red wine glasses (see additional late-Friday night collection); paper, including newspapers but not the Sunday Mirror.
Wednesday: I can’t quite remember: is it babies and toddlers? But which bin was it? I’m not sure whether I could have misunderstood the instructions though.
Thursday: Green – all green waste but NOT from Celastraceae, Malvaceae and Rosaceae. Also: kitchen waste, but only chicken bones and olive stones (see also Monday’s collection).
Friday: Blue: all recyclables, but no plastics (see Monday and Tuesday). No cricket bats.
Friday-extra: there will be a new extra late-night collection (approx. 23:45) of broken beer and wine glasses, but no champagne flutes.
Saturday: no collection, phew …
Sunday morning: this is a new collection: half-eaten croissants, wastage from fried and boiled eggs, grapefruit and toast, only soggy. The Sunday Mirror (read-only).
Week 2:
Monday’s collection will be on Tuesday. Tuesday moves to Thursday. No collection on Friday which moves to Saturday. Wednesday is collected on Monday. Sunday collection: as above but also (fortnightly only): any old copies of the News of the World.
* Rigidity test (for plastics): position plastic item on floor, stamp well on it. If toe breaks it is/was ‘rigid’, otherwise ‘non-rigid’.