Many of the changes to bin collections in Cheshire initially announced over the festive season remain the same, but Covid and lorry driver shortages have led to disruption in one Cheshire borough. You can find out when your bin collection day is here. COMMUNITY SHRED EVENT. Delivery of the new collection calendars to every household in the borough began on Monday, September 20. After Monday, January 4, 2021, real Christmas trees can be dropped off for the council to reuse them in parks and open spaces at: Trees will be mulched for use throughout the year in your parks and gardens. keep it until the next bin collection (if it will fit in a bin with less in it). You can donate a toy at one of the area toy drop locations, host a Toys for Tots event at your home, As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. Further information will be provided in the coming weeks about how to sign up to use this service. During 2022 we delivered approximately 300,000 new recycling wheeled bins to 150,000 properties. There will be no recycling or black bin collections on Monday 26 December (Boxing Day), or Monday 2 January, 2023 (New Years Day Bank Holiday), If your black bin was due for collection on Monday 26 December, it will now be collected on Friday 23 December, If your silver bin was due for collection on Monday 26 December, it will now be collected on Thursday 22 December, If your black bin was due for collection on Tuesday 27 December, it will now be collected on Thursday 29 December, If your silver bin was due for collection on Tuesday 27 December, it will now be collected on Wednesday 28 December, If your black bin was due for collection on Monday 2 January, it will now be collected on Tuesday 3 January. Read more of the top stories from across Cheshire here. The Charter Township of Plymouth has extended seasonal curbside collection of yard waste. The roll out plan will see around 12,000 households a month on average receiving their new containers alongside a full printed information pack which will include bin stickers and instructions on what needs to be placed in each container. Responding to why the charge is needed, CWaC says: "This is the fairest way to fund the service. It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. The new recycling wheeled bin service is: Clean: more secure recycling bins will reduce the. Education and learning. Ansa Cheshire East Councils wholly-owned environmental services company will be placing information stickers on black bins of those households whose normal collections fall on the bank holidays and advising residents of changes to their collection schedule over the Christmas and New Year period. and you will be redirected to the Toys for Tots website for your local community. The plan was approved on Tuesday with 36 voting in favour and 33 against. Due to increasing financial pressures, the council must make some tough decisions to sustain the overall waste management service. Conservatives branded the charge a "stealth tax" while Labour defended it, arguing the council was not legally obliged to collect garden waste. Please report any comments that break our rules. Cheshire West and Chester says will be no changes to collections during the festive period. The new chargeable garden waste collection service is part of the Councils new Waste Management Strategy, which seeks to encourage residents to reduce the amount of waste the borough produces, to compost more and to recycle more. Look out for messages on how you can play your part on our social media channels. Sign into my.crawley.gov.uk to check your collection days and the status of your current collection. Contact your council directly if you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland. Read more of the top stories from across Cheshire here. "We are facing unique challenges as a Council, with a climate emergency and an unprecedented squeeze on finances. Got something to say on this story? We collect rubbish weekly, recycling fortnightly and if you have a GREENbin, garden waste fortnightly. 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Highways GEORGIA Business and licencing. It is not just newspapers that you can recycle at home. The changes are a response to the increased number of properties in the borough. At the moment, the costs fall on all residents, whether they have a garden or not.". If your silver bin was due for collection on Monday 2 January, it will now be collected on Friday 30 December. Concerns were also raised about affordability and increased fly tipping as a result. On a related note, Cheshire West and Chester Council is supporting Recycle Week this week. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. But Conservatives branded it a "stealth tax" and said residents had already been hit by successive council tax rises. They said a number of other authorities including some Conservative councils already imposed similar charges. Councillor Karen Shore said: "Labour has had to make tough decisions to compensate for failing Tory privatisation, these tough decisions include charging for a non-statutory service in order to sustain the overall waste management service.". After two years of the industry feeling the strong impacts of Covid, the resilience our workforce has continued to show has been outstanding. There will be no garden waste collections between Monday 19 December and Sunday 8 January. The fortnightly garden waste service will be provided between March and November and the charge will be introduced from March. The 2022 curbside yard waste collection will begin the week of Monday, April 4, 2022. Current arrangements for other waste collection will not change. About 60 per cent of all households in the borough will receive a new collection day or weekly rota. GREEN bin collections are being suspended until February, Cheshire West and Chester Council has confirmed. Keep a space in your kitchen so that you can recycle as you are cooking or cleaning. Something went wrong, please try again later. Over the Christmas period, there will be no garden waste collections from Tuesday, December 22, with these collections resuming on Monday, January 4, 2021. Births, deaths and marriages. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. Find a councillor. 2021. We use some essential cookies to make this website work. An update posted on Cheshire East Council's website read: "Unfortunately a number of the scheduled Christmas waste collections due to take place (as per the sticker on the bin) on Thursday 30 December 2021 and Friday 31 December will not be completed. Check your bin collection dates. Can Nigeria's election result be overturned? People will be eager to get rid of wrapping paper, boxes and all kinds of rubbish that has been steadily building up over the past week in the aftermath of Christmas Day. The authority says the move will ensure kerbside waste and recycling collections are maintained during the busy festive period and help the service cope with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. GUAM CheshireLive has brought readers the latest bin collection updates from across the borough. IDAHO DELAWARE A charge for the new opt-in chargeable service would give people the choice whether or not to use it. NEVADA You can make your payment online when you submit .