The sterling efforts of the district’s refuse and recycling
teams will mean that from tomorrow (Thursday, January 14) all
collections should be back to normal, with people once again able
to put out their brown wheelie bins as well.
The teams from Suffolk Coastal Services Ltd have been catching
up with all the blue-lidded and grey-lidded bin collections that
were missed last Thursday and Friday (January 7 and 8) because of
the severe weather conditions which prevented the collections
lorries from accessing many untreated locations.
“The excellent news is that by tomorrow, every home should have
had a collection during the last week. The SCS teams have continued
to collect despite the deep snow and ice covering many pavements
and rural lanes and deserve praise for their efforts,” said Cllr
Andrew Nunn, Cabinet Member for the Green Environment.
“To achieve this splendid feat, SCS had to temporarily suspend
all its brown bin collections, but now it has caught up with all
its main refuse and recycling collections we can ask people to
start putting out their brown bin on the next scheduled day they
are due to be emptied.
“Last week’s heavy snow made it impossible for our teams to work
and because of the dangers underfoot that residents would have
faced putting out their bins, we had no choice but to stop all our
services. I thank everyone for their patience and would ask
everyone to put things out for collection on their normal scheduled
day,” added Cllr Nunn.
All but 5,000 homes in the district have grey-lidded bins for
their domestic rubbish and blue-lidded bins for materials that can
be recycled such as paper, cans, foil, plastic bottles and
cardboard. The remaining homes currently still use black sacks but
they too will switch to the new improved service in March, with a
series of information roadshows now underway for those residents
getting the new service.
Every home in the district also has a brown bin for garden waste
and also all cooked and uncooked food which, despite the recent
fire at the Parham site, is still being collected and turned into a
reusable compost.
“I hope that everyone will make an extra effort to get back into
the recycling habit, which has already seen our residents take over
50 per cent of their waste out of their bins so it can be reused.
If anyone has forgotten when they should be putting out their bins,
they can call the SCS helpline on 01394 444000,” added Cllr
Nunn.