Rubbish and Recycling Collection Changes Looming
Fortnightly collections and four containers for your front garden
Details of the new regime of the collection of rubbish and recycling have been announced by Hounslow Council.
It has been confirmed that there will be fortnightly collections from houses for general waste with recycling and food waste collected weekly from July.
The Council currently recycles 31 per cent of its waste but says it could save £1.3 million a year in landfill costs if residents are able to recycle 50 per cent.
The Council will be giving every house in the borough the following:
- A new red recycling box for residents to put in households’ plastic and cans
- A new blue recycling box for households’ paper and card
- A new recycling box net to cover the recycling boxes on windy days
- A roll of 52 biodegradable bags for food waste
Information leaflets explaining the collection changes and how residents should use the new recycling boxes will be given to all residents who live in houses over the coming weeks. Delivery of the new recycling boxes will happen before Monday 5 June.
Further details on how to sort your rubbish can be found at RecyclingRefresh.
All other rubbish – in black bins - will be collected every two weeks starting from Monday 10 July
Councillor Amrit Mann, Deputy Leader of Hounslow Council, said: “We promised you a greener, cleaner borough and that is what we are doing with the introduction of the new weekly recycling collections for houses.
“We need residents’ help to recycle more so we achieve our recycling target of 50 per cent by 2019 and save £1.3 million a year which could be used protect other vital Council services.
“Many residents throw items away as rubbish when they could and should be recycled instead. We hope this weekly recycling collection will help residents realise just how much they can and do recycle before all other rubbish is collected every two weeks starting on 10 July 2017.”
May 5, 2017
