HALF of the homes in the city will see a change to their bin collections later this month, as Worcester moves to a ‘same material, same week’ approach.
This means that, in the week of July 29, all residents will have their black bins emptied and their green bins collected the following week. Bin collections will then continue in the same sequence.
At the moment, in any week half the city have their black bins emptied and the other half, their green bins.
After the change on July 29, all Worcester households will have their green or black bins collected in the same week. This will help make the City Council’s bin collection service more efficient and help the management of the flow of recyclables and waste through sorting and treatment facilities.
Just under 23,000 homes will be affected by the change. They will need to put their black bins out for two weeks running – in the weeks of July 22 and 29.
After that, the normal sequence of green bins one week and black bins the next will resume.
Coun Karen Lewing, vice chair of Worcester City Council’s environment committee, said: “The one thing people need to remember is that, in the week of 29 July, it’s their black bin that needs to go out.
“The reality is that, once we get through the week of July 29, bin collections will settle down again into the normal pattern of black bins one week and green the next, so we hope that most people will hardly notice the difference.”
The collection of brown garden waste bins is not affected by these changes.
Visit www.worcester.gov.uk/recycling-waste for more information.
