New Recycling and Waste Collection Service

Why are we changing the service?

We’re doing this so we can:

• Give 100% of homes a recycling collection service
• Increase recycling and reduce waste going to landfill
• Avoid increasing landfill costs and the need for more landfills
• Reduce problems with sack collection e.g. littering from ripped sacks and crew injuries

When will the new services start?

The introduction of new recycling and waste services from September 2008.

The first phase will be ten thousand households starting in September 2008 followed by the remaining forty thousand households in the second phase in March 2009.

See the list below to find out when households in your area will be starting:

Phase one (September 2008):

• Hartlebury
• Ombersley
• Lovett and North Claines ward with the exception of Westwood parish
• Dodderhill
• Bowbrook
• Upton Snodsbury
• Norton and Whittington
• Inkberrow ward (with the exception of Cookhill, Abbots Morton, Rous Lench,  Abberton and Church Lench parishes)
• Drakes Broughton (excluding Pirton)
• Pinvin

Phase two (March 2009):

• All Droitwich wards
• Pershore
• Eckington
• Bredon
• South Bredon Hill
• Fladbury
• Elmley Castle and Somerville
• All Evesham wards
• Broadway and Wickhamford
• Badsey
• Bretforton and Offenham
• The Littletons
• Honeybourne and Pebworth
• Harvington and Norton
• Plus parishes of Westwood, Cookhill, Abbots Morton, Rous Lench, Abberton, Church Lench and Pirton.

Find out more at the roadshows

We will be visiting residents over the next few months providing information on the new scheme and promoting our road shows where you can find out more about the new scheme, see example bins and have an opportunity to find out about some alternative service arrangements.

Church Lench Village Hall: Off Main Street- Monday 4th August

Harvington C of E 1st School  Village Street - Monday 11th August

Fladbury Village Hall:  Station Road - Tuesday 12th August

Badsey Remembrance Hall:  Horsebridge Avenue - Tuesday 19th August

Offenham Village Hall:  Main Street - Wednesday 20th August

Pebworth Village Hall:  Chapel Road - Wednesday 27 August

Littleton Village Hall:  Middle Littleton - Thursday 28 August

Elmley Castle Village Hall:  Tuesday 2nd September

Broadway - Lifford Memorial Hall:  Lower Green, Broadway - Wednesday 3rd September

Bredon Village Hall:  Main Road - Tuesday 9th September

Beckford Village Hall:  Back Lane - Friday 12 September

Eckington Memorial Hall:  School Lane - Tuesday 16 September

Droitwich - Sacred Heart Church Hall:  Worcester Road, Droitwich - Tuesday 7th October

Droitwich - John Corbett Room, Community Hall:  Heritage Way, Droitwich - Wednesday 8th October

Droitwich - John Corbett Room, Community Hall:  Heritage Way, Droitwich - Thursday 9th October

Droitwich - Westlands Community Centre:  Friday 10th October

Evesham Town Hall:  Tuesday, 28th October

Evesham Town Hall:  Wednesday, 29th October

Evesham Town Hall:  Friday, 31st October

Pershore Civic Centre:  Wednesday, 12th November

Pershore Town Hall:  Thursday, 13th November

How will the new collection work?

Please note that none of our bins will be fitted with microchips.

Under the new system residents will receive the following collections:

Week 1 - recycling– green wheelie bin (1100 mm high, 580 mm wide, 740 mm deep)

• This wheelie bin is for all your recyclable waste.
• Paper, cans, plastics and glass.
• No more sorting – just put it in clean and loose. This bin replaces your clear and purple sacks and the glass box.
• Full details of what can be recycled will be provided when you get the bins.

Week 2 - non-recycling – grey wheelie bin (1070 mm high, 480 mm wide, 730 mm deep)

• This wheelie bin is for what’s left over after you’ve recycled everything you can.
• This bin replaces black sacks.
• Hopefully this bin will have the least in.
• Remember anything that goes in here goes straight to landfill.

Each Week: A kitchen waste bin (353mm high, 295 mm wide, 340 mm deep)

• This bin is for all your food waste such as peelings and leftovers. It has a lockable lid and can be put out each week along with the grey bin and the green bin.
• Householders will also receive a small caddie (215 mm high, 275 mm wide, 205 mm deep - maximum dimensions) for use in the kitchen to help collect up the food waste ready for transfer to the kitchen waste bin.

During consultation residents told us that they wanted a weekly food waste collection due to worries over smells and flies in the summer. However, due to the significant cost of composting the food waste we can only compost food waste on the week that we collect your recycling green bin in a specialist vehicle. The week your non-recycling grey bin is collected the same vehicle will take your food waste and it will be sent to landfill, as currently happens.

Alternative service arrangements

You may need to get in touch with us if any of the issues mentioned below apply to you.

Exemptions to the wheelie bin collection

There will be a small number of properties that will be exempt from using wheelie bins. These properties will have the same items collected but with sacks, a box for glass and a food waste bin.

Exemptions may apply if a property has any of the following:

• No space property to store a bin and no access to potential storage space.
• Physical features such as steps or a steep gradient, which make it very difficult or hazardous to move a bin to the front of the property.

Assisted collections

For those who are physically unable to put out their own bin, sack or box and need assistance with their collection please let us know. Collections will be from an agreed place.

Smaller grey or green wheelie bins

If you have access problems or generate less waste a smaller bin may be more suitable for you. Smaller  wheelie bins are available to anyone who requests them for recycling, refuse or both.

The smaller bins measure 1065mm high, 480mm wide and 560mm deep.

How to apply

To apply for an exemption to the wheelie bin scheme, an assisted collection or a different size recycling or refuse bin, please complete the tear off strip on your leaflet when you receive it and return it to us freepost. Once this has been received a site visit may be arranged and we will get in touch with you to tell you the outcome.

Further Information

For more information about refuse and recycling contact:

Client Services
Wychavon District Council
Telephone: 01386 565018 - between 9am-5pm, Monday - Friday
E-mail: client.services@wychavon.gov.uk