Improved Recycling Collections for Tewkesbury Borough
From April this year, Tewkesbury Borough Council will be improving the collections for recycling allowing all residents to recycle more from their home.
Why not come along to one of our roadshows to find out more about the changes?
All residents will be given a new blue wheeled bin for recycling which will replace the current green kerbside boxes. In this new blue bin residents will be able to recycle newspaper, magazines, glass bottles, jars, tins, cans, plastic bottles, card and cardboard. This collection will remain fortnightly.
In addition, residents will be able to recycle food waste as part of a new weekly collection. All residents will receive two lockable plastic containers called caddies: one small caddy to collect food waste in the kitchen and a larger caddy to put out at the kerbside for collection. The Council will collect all food waste, which includes cooked and uncooked food, leftovers, dairy, meat, gravy, bones, bread, dairy products etc which will be composted into a soil conditioner.
The new collections will allow residents to recycle more and put less rubbish out in the current green wheeled bin, therefore the green bin collections will be reduced to fortnightly.
The garden waste collection service is not changing. It will continue to only accept garden waste and food waste is still not allowed to be mixed in.
The new containers will be delivered to households in March and April, along with a new collection calendar and an instruction leaflet.
More information on the new collections can be found at www.tewkesbury.gov.uk/recycling We will be holding a series of roadshows throughout Tewkesbury Borough for residents to come and find out more about the new service.
10 February 2010