Food waste<\/b><\/p>\n
Starting in April 2026, all local authorities in England are required to provide weekly food waste collections for every household, including flats and communal housing.<\/p>\n
Residents will receive one five litre indoor food caddy for the kitchen and a 23 litre food caddy for outside collection, with biodegradable liners and information about what should go in the caddies. <\/p>\n
Replacement liners will be supplied free of charge after the service begins.<\/p>\n
A ribbon should be tied to the handle of the food waste caddy to re-order liners.<\/p>\n
Other recycling<\/b><\/p>\n
All other recycling will also be collected weekly with each household receiving an additional weighted bag for the collection of plastics, cans and cartons, in addition to the current white bag for paper and card and blue box for glass and batteries.<\/p>\n
New kerbside collections of clothes, shoes and small electrical and electronic equipment will also be provided.<\/p>\n
Garden waste <\/b><\/p>\n
Garden waste can be collected if residents subscribe to the council’s annual service, with fortnightly collections from March until November costing \u00a340 per year. <\/p>\n
For those with larger gardens, additional bins are available at a cost of \u00a325. New subscribers will be provided with a new brown garden waste bin.<\/p>\n
Collection days<\/b><\/p>\n
For some residents the changes will mean a change in their collection day.<\/p>\n
The authority will inform those affected and households can also check on the council’s website or app.<\/p>\n
Assisted collections<\/b><\/p>\n
For those who receive assisted collections, these will continue. <\/p>\n
Back alley properties<\/b><\/p>\n
The council said these properties have historically had issues with fly tipping and will continue to receive weekly residual waste collections along with recycling and food waste collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food waste Starting in April 2026, all local authorities in England are required to provide weekly food waste…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-690809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115881526039742707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}