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Let’s take on the challenge to waste less food

Let’s take on the challenge to waste less food

A leaflet championing the need to waste less food will be delivered to residents across the borough of Bury from today, along with a roll of 52 compostable food waste liners.

Festive season bin collections

Festive season bin collections

Bury Council is reminding residents that, over the festive period, there are no planned changes to blue, green or grey bin collections.

Cllr Alan Quinn.

Festive season bin collections

Bury Council is reminding residents that over the festive period there are no planned changes to blue, green or grey bin collections.

Carl Nieland, waste operations manager, and Councillor Alan Quinn with one of the new Rotopress vehicles.

Better bin rounds coming soon

Bury Council is introducing new bin collection rounds from 21 June to improve efficiency and provide a better service to residents.

No change to Easter bin collections

No change to Easter bin collections

Bury Council is reminding residents that they will see no change to their household waste collections over Easter as collections will take place as usual on Good Friday and Easter Monday.

Operations manager Carl Nieland and Cllr Alan Quinn try out one of the new waste collection trucks.

Nineteen new bin trucks to hit the streets of Bury

Bury Council is investing £3.5 million in a new ‘fit for purpose’, fuel efficient fleet of 19 waste collection vehicles to boost efficiency and improve the service provided to residents.

Crew members (from left) Thomas Nolan, Michael Wilkinson and driver David Edwards.

​Christmas bin collections alert

Bury Council is reminding residents throughout the borough of Bury that their bin collections will be a day earlier than usual in the week prior to Christmas.

​Please keep the wrong stuff out of your green bin

​Please keep the wrong stuff out of your green bin

​In the last six months across the borough of Bury more than 850 tonnes of green bin recycling has been rejected, wasting more than £75,000 - money that could have been spent on other essential services!

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Committed to providing good quality services to our residents

Bury Council consists of six towns, Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. Formed in April 1974 as a result of Local Government re-organisation it was one of the ten original districts that formed the County of Greater Manchester. The Borough has an area of 9,919 hectares (24,511 acres) and serves a population of 187,500.

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