Important news about bin collections

One-off collections of brown bins are being organised to pick up people’s garden and food waste.

These collections will start this week, so residents are being urged to sign up for email reminders on when to put their bins out: go to www.bury.gov.uk/bincollections

All other bin collections are continuing as normal, including on Good Friday.

Councillor Alan Quinn, cabinet member for the environment, said: “Due to the coronavirus outbreak, waste collections have been severely disrupted, particularly brown bin collections.

“However, we are arranging a one-off collection of the brown bins, recognising that many people will have put waste in there before the restrictions came in. After this, they will not be collected until further notice, so that we can prioritise collecting the other bins. Until collections resume, please put food waste in your grey bin, and store your garden waste in a corner of your garden. Or you could look into setting up a compost bin which is a great way to turn kitchen and garden waste into a rich food for your garden.”

Cllr Quinn added: “These one-off brown bin collections will probably not be on your usual collection day, and collections are entirely reliant on having enough staff available, and that can change from day to day.

“That’s why we’re urging everyone to sign up for email reminders and alerts - nearly 33,000 households have already done so.

“Our bin men are working tremendously hard, especially given the extra waste that is being generated by people being at home all day. Due to the need to reduce contact, we have reduced the number of crew members to two in each cab.

“Please bear with us at this difficult time and be assured that over the coming weeks we will be doing everything we can to maintain the service as best we can.”

For all information on Bury’s waste collections during the Covid-19 crisis, go to www.bury.gov.uk/bincollections-coronavirus

More information about home composting is at https://getcomposting.com/profile/login

ENDS

Press release issued: 6 April 2020.

Picture: Sign up for bin collection reminders! Carl Nieland, waste operations manager.