Transformation plans were initially delayed last year due to the ongoing bins strike, with the council<\/a> later saying the changes would be introduced this month regardless of whether the dispute had been resolved or not.<\/p>\n But their plans have now been disrupted by further turbulence \u2013 this time caused by Birmingham<\/a> \u2019s unprecedented local election<\/a> results last month.<\/p>\n With no party having the numbers needed to take control of the council by themselves, the council remains without political leadership and talks are under way to try and form a stable coalition.<\/p>\n Against this backdrop, a council spokesperson issued an update on the transformation of the waste service.<\/p>\n \u201cThe planned changes to the waste collection service (fortnightly household waste collection, a second recycling bin and the full food waste rollout) will not progress whilst we await the new political administration of the council,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n Birmingham City Council House in Victoria Square -Credit:Christopher Furlong\/Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cAs the changes were due to start on a phased basis in June, some residents will already have received information about changes to the service, including changes to collection dates.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are sorry for any confusion this causes, we are keeping the existing service and will provide a further update once we have a position from the new administration.<\/p>\n \u201cThose residents currently part of the new food waste pilot will continue to receive that service.\u201d<\/p>\n But what are the positions of the main political parties that could be involved in a coalition?<\/p>\n The Birmingham Liberal Democrats<\/a> said before the elections that they would \u201cmaintain weekly collections until services have shown themselves to be completely reliable for a significant level of time\u201d.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/b> Birmingham parents demand action from city’s future leaders amid suburb’s ‘road rage nightmare’<\/b> <\/a><\/p>\n Asked whether the Green Party<\/a> would continue with plans to introduce fortnightly collections, Coun Julien Pritchard said before May 7: \u201cNo party is going to have an overall majority, we\u2019re going to have to see what all the parties around the table are saying.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, the most important thing is to get the waste service to be reliable.\u201d<\/p>\n Coun Robert Alden, the leader of the Conservatives, also pledged prior to the elections that the Tories<\/a> would keep weekly bin collections.<\/p>\n Labour<\/a> and Reform UK<\/a> have ruled themselves out of being involved in a coalition to run the council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham Council has confirmed that planned changes to the city\u2019s bin collections \u2018will not progress\u2019 as it awaits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":999587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[62859,855,984,748,90755,393,4884,30843,16,15,277279],"class_list":["post-999586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-bin-collections","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-city-council","tag-britain","tag-collections","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-recycling-bin","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-waste-service"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116678277263961096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999586","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=999586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Birmingham](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5636eb5f79971d993a5d32420e899bdf.jpeg\"\/)
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