Wokingham Blue Rubbish Bags Being Delivered Now
Delivery of more than five million
blue waste bags by Wokingham Borough Council will start today (Monday 21
January).
The bags, which households use for waste that cannot be recycled, will take
approximately five weeks to deliver. Each household will receive 80 bags in two
rolls of 40 to cover the period between April 2019 and March 2020. They are being
delivered slightly earlier this year to allow for the delivery of food waste
containers and liners to households in time for the start of food waste
collections in April.
This year’s bags will be reverting
back to the previous design of two handles. The size and quality of the bags
remains the same. Crews can only collect waste in these council branded bags.
Waste collections will continue to be on a weekly basis and the number of bags
each household receives will not reduce.
There will be changes in the garden waste collection day for some residents and
those affected will be notified by letter. All other collections remain
unchanged for 2019/20 and any residents who are unsure of their day can use the
postcode search on the council’s website at: www.wokingham.gov.uk (search for
‘bin day’).
Food Waste
Food waste collections will be introduced to most households in the Borough from April 2019. In preparation, crews will be delivering an outdoor container, kitchen caddy and a roll of caddy liners to households in the Borough from March. Food waste collections will take place at the same time as current blue bag and mixed recycling collections from April. Flats are not included in the initial roll out. More information about the roll out is available on the council’s website (search for ‘food waste collections’).
Any residents who need additional recycling boxes can request them online via the council’s website (search for ‘recycling’).
Brown Bags
Households can also purchase brown
bags for green waste collection if they do not need a green waste bin on the
council’s website (search for ‘garden waste’).
Cllr John Halsall, executive member for environment, leisure and libraries,
said: “While the allocation takes residents up until the end of March 2020.
We hope that with last year’s increase in items of what can be recycled in
kerbside collections, as well as the upcoming roll out of food waste
collections in April, we can see a significant reduction in the amount of
household waste that we produce as a Borough. Our aim is to recycle at least 50%
of all waste in the Borough by 2020.”
Blue bags were first introduced back
in 2012 to restrict the volume of waste per household to approximately 120
litres per week. This is the equivalent of a fortnightly 240 litre wheeled bin
collection but with the extra flexibility of weekly collection and the ability
to put out more waste for collection on some weeks and less in other. When
introduced, the service resulted in a 30% reduction of residual waste within
the first year.
Track Delivery
Anyone wishing to know when their
allocation will be delivered can do so by visiting the council’s website
(search for ‘annual bin bag delivery’).
Any new residents to the Borough, or anyone needing to register as a larger
household, can visit the council’s website (search for ‘rubbish’) or by
contacting the borough council’s customer delivery team.
