Local News
Issue 1018
19th July 2018
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Brown bins are in for north Sheffield
CHANGES to recycling services in Sheffield are being introduced across the city throughout August to October – with the north of Sheffield included in the first phase. Sheffield City Council and Veolia will roll out changes to recycling services with a new brown bin to replace the current blue boxes. Black bin collections will not be affected by the changes to recycling bins and will continue to be collected every two weeks. The blue and new brown bins will have their own separate collection days. When the changes are introduced existing blue bins will be used for card and paper and the new larger brown bins (which are the same size as the black
bin) will be used for plastic bottles, cans and glass.
is inviting residents to sign up for email alerts for service updates.
All residents will be notified of how these changes will affect the way they handle their waste and recycling, with leaflets going out to all households and notices being placed on bins.
Under the new service a bin will be emptied every week on the same day from each household. The four weekly pattern for collections will be black bin, blue bin, black bin, brown bin.
The changes, which were approved at Cabinet in January 2017, will be introduced in two stages for the north and south of the city. Leaflets and other communications will start going out to residents this week, explaining the changes and the phased approach to implement them.
This means the black bin will be emptied once every two weeks, the blue and brown bin will be emptied once every four weeks.
Each household will be given a collection calendar at the same time as the brown bin is delivered and the council
The obsolete blue boxes can be retained by households for personal use, such as planters, toy boxes and garden storage containers, however those who don’t want to keep them can take them to a Household Waste Recycling Centre. Any collected blue boxes will be recycled.
The council say that benefits of replacing the blue box with a brown bin include increased capacity for paper and card recycling, tidier storage of recycled materials reduces litter blown from boxes, easier handling of bin than blue box and annual waste management saving of £750,000. The annual waste management saving of £750,000 is made possible through more efficient collections. Collecting just one type of waste means that specialist collection vehicles are no longer required. The new vehicles will have increased collection capacity and they will only need to take recycling to one location each week. This means that collections are quicker to complete and fewer vehicles are needed.
People can continue to take any extra recycling to local recycling sites across the city. Go to www.veolia.co.uk/sheffield to find your nearest site. Provided it is no larger than the blue bin, excess paper and card can be flatpacked, tied up and left next to the blue bin on collection day. The council will also rollout recycling facilities for paper and card, glass, cans and plastic bottles to all flats in Sheffield by March 2019. People can sign up for service updates about bin collections at www.bit.ly/ sheffbins More information about changes to recycling services is available at www. sheffield.gov.uk
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