Whilst looking on the Wokingham Borough Councils website today to see if the Public Sector strikes were going to affect rubbish collection in my area, I came across some information about changes to local rubbish collections/ recycling that will be introduced from April 2012. I don’t remember seeing any leaflets about this or reports in local newspapers, but there are some interesting changes.
Basically these will be:-
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Items for recycling (using existing black boxes) will now be collected on a weekly basis.
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Other household rubbish will continue to be collected weekly, but each householder will now be issued with 80 free rubbish bags/sacks. These will be specifically marked; use any other bags/containers and they will not be collected. Wheelie bin are not to introduced.
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Free collection of Green Waste (Green Bags) will now end as of the end of March 2012. However, if you still want a home collection of Green Waste, you will now have to to pay for this service. You will then be given a brown wheelie bin at an annual charge of £60 per annum or you can buy a number of 75 litre compostable sacks for a price commensurate with the annual charge. Both the wheelie bin/ compostable sacks will be collected every fortnight. However, we are all being encouraged to now take our own Green Waste to local recycling sites.
It’s good to see that Wokingham is not going the way of other councils and cutting back on frequency of collections, but I suspect that the cutting of free Green Waste will cause some issues for many residents plus some might feel that the extra charge is on top of what we already pay in local council taxes.
More information about the changes and a list of questions & answers (FAQ’s) is available from the Wokingham Borough Council website.
Happy recycling.
Beasley's Place 