A number of you have been in touch regarding the current waste collection service and when it might get ‘back to normal’.

I wanted a senior council officer to re-confirm the situation before replying.

The current service is what the Council is confident it can maintain. 

The current service is delivered with a number of staff shielding and those working having to social distance (i.e. only 2 in the bin waggon cabs now). 

Staff have been taken and re deployed from the weekly green/food waste collection to fill in in gaps (and reduction of speed) created by above.

We therefore now have a grey bin collection, a blue bin collection and a brown/green every third week.

The situation is reviewed on a monthly basis.

Hope this explains, and hopefully in another month or two we can get back to normal, providing we do not have a spike in Covid 19.