Sign up for garden waste

Our garden waste collection service runs from March to the first week of December each year. Collections are fortnightly from March to November. The garden waste bin is 240 litres and the price of the bin is £32 for the year, and £30 if you sign up before the end of April. If you need additional bins, up to three extra for an additional cost of £18 per bin is allowed. If residents haven’t paid, their bin will be tagged as a reminder. Garden waste collections will cease until the account is paid. Sign up for garden waste collections at www.mansfield.gov.uk/gardenwaste.

Find out what you can and can’t recycle at

www.mansfield.gov.uk/recycling

Don’t forget to label your bin

Don’t forget to number your bins to ensure that they won’t be mixed up with your neighbours. Never worry about your wheelie bin taking a stroll along the road.

More information: sign up for free bin collection reminder emails at www.mansfield.gov.uk/ signup. Find out what can and can’t go in each bin at www.mansfield.gov.uk/bins. Check your bin days, including brown garden waste bins, at www.mansfield.gov.uk/bindays

Are you Bin Smart?

Only these can go into your Recycling Bin. Please remember your recyclable material should be clean, dry, empty and loose. Please do not put your recyclable items in plastic carrier bags.

Plastics

3 Plastic drinks bottles and lids*

3 Shower gel and shampoo bottles and lids*

3 Cleaning product bottles and lids*

*Please take your pump and sprays off and put them in your general waste bin.

If in doubt - leave it out.

3 Yoghurt pots

3 Margarine tubs

Please wash and squash bottles before replacing the lid.

Rough sleepers’

First Steps to new life off streets

A pioneering scheme that enables rough sleepers to turn their lives around has been awarded more than £1m in funding to keep it running for another three years.

Mansfield First Steps enables rough sleepers to move off the streets and into accommodation combined with a wraparound package of support to help address often complex needs such as mental health issues and substance misuse.

Working with various partners in the third and private sectors, the council has been able to tackle rough sleeping at a grass roots level by first providing accommodation and then attaching it to an ongoing wraparound and bespoke package of support.

The idea behind this ‘housing first’ approach is that it gives former rough sleepers a stable home from which to rebuild their lives with the help of intensive, holistic, person-centred and open-ended support.

Two green spaces in the town centre are opening to visitors.

The Memorial Garden, located behind the Old Town Hall, is home to a newly installed 2.4 metre monument with a smooth pebblelike surface and also features seating areas, trees, plants and terraced grass areas.

The second green area has seen a slide and steps for youngsters installed, grass terraces laid, and planting in place at the rear entrance