Green Waste Plus - Pilot Scheme for Thursday collections only
Green Waste Plus allows residents to recycle
food waste and cardboard along with green waste in their existing
green wheeled bin.
All households with a Thursday collection day
have been selected to take part in the pilot, and if successful the
scheme will be rolled out boroughwide in 2010. Your
collection days/dates will remain unchanged and your waste will
still be collected weekly in purple sacks.
If you have a Thursday collection day please
begin to add food and cardboard waste to your existing green
wheeled bin from week commencing 22 February. Your first
Green Waste Plus collection will take place on either
Thursday 4 or 11 March 2010 depending on your
collection schedule. This coincides with your first collection
after the green waste winter break. Details of your next collection
day can be found here.
A list of all roads on the pilot can be found here. For maps of the pilot
areas please click on the following links:
What can go in your Green Wheeled Bin?
For detailed information on what can go in your green wheeled
bin please click on the picture below.
What should I do to recycle my food waste and cardboard?
- Keep an empty cereal box (or similar), or a
sheet of newspaper handy in your kitchen.
- When preparing your meal place all food
waste, including any cooked food left over after the meal into the
cereal box or on to a sheet of newspaper .
- Place your cereal box or wrapped up newspaper
full of food directly into your green wheeled bin.
- The Council is also issuing kitchen caddies.
All your food waste can be stored in your caddy before being
emptied into your green wheeled bin. The caddy can be lined with
newspaper or paper bags but please do not use plastic (including
bio-degradable and compostable) bags.
- Caddies will be delivered to all residents on
the pilot putting out
a wheeled bin on their boundary on 4 or 11 March 2010. If
you would like a caddy but do not have anything to collect please
still put your bin on your boundary and a caddy will be delivered.
Alternatively, from Monday 15 March residents on the pilot can
collect a caddy from any of the Council's one stop shops.
- Place all other cardboard (toilet rolls, egg
boxes etc.) into your wheeled bin. Tear up large pieces to create
more space.
Further information can be found in the Green Waste Plus
leaflet and by viewing the list of Frequently Asked Questions.