Somerset Waste Partnership Briefing for Members, Partners and Staff April 2021

Renew garden waste online NOW! With no collections on Bank Holiday Got a garden waste collection? Your Monday (3 May), Monday's pick-ups are service, extended due to last year's on Tuesday, through to Friday's taking COVID disruption, runs out by Saturday place on Saturday 8 May. This affects 8 May. Renew now to avoid a gap; there recycling and rubbish, plus garden, is no amnesty or grace period. Best way clinical, assisted and bulky waste to pay is online. Starting a subscription? collections, and waste container Sign up online or, if you prefer, buy deliveries. garden waste sacks and order pick-ups to suit you via somersetwaste.gov.uk's Meanwhile, the Spring Bank Holiday on My Waste Services menu. Monday 30 May will also see one-day- later collections that week, including In-cab technology to identify paid-up Friday's on Saturday 5 June. subscribers means the service will be stickerless from 10 May, and improved For both bank holidays, recycle sites will routes means some subscribers will get be unchanged, though they are all now a letter with a different collection day. on their summer hours (weekdays 9am- More: somersetwaste.gov.uk/garden- 6pm, weekends 9am-4pm). waste-collections/ On Fridays, 10 sites open 9am-6pm: All change for May bank holidays , Chard, , Highbridge, All collections are one day later in the , Somerton, , week of the Early May Bank Holiday. Wellington, Wells, . On Saturdays and Sundays, all 16 sites open 9am to Every home will have a new recycling 4pm. On Mondays, 12 sites open 9am- container – a Bright Blue Bag – delivered 6pm: Bridgwater, Castle Cary, Chard, just before the new service starts. Cheddar, , Frome, Minehead, Street, Taunton, Wells, Williton, Yeovil. Different materials will go into different containers, with the bag used to for Recycle More heads South plastic pots, tubs, trays and bottles; plus South residents should cans, foil and empty aerosols. prepare for their exciting new recycling service by thinking inside the box. Everyone in will be sent full Recycle More information before the Recycle More reaches South Somerset in service starts, including their collection late June, with much more recycling calendar and a what-goes-where guide. collected every week, and emptier rubbish bins taken every three weeks. Extra support is available for anyone Having all the right containers to make with concerns about Recycle More. full use of weekly recycling is key. Garden and clinical waste collections will not change with Recycle More. Everyone can have a green and a black recycling box, plus a food waste bin. All Recycle More details (including are FREE and can be ordered easily planned roll-out dates for Somerset online with the My Waste Service menu West and Taunton and ): at somersetwaste.gov.uk. Never use somersetwaste.gov.uk/recycle-more anything except safe and efficient official boxes and bins. Somerset Waste Board SWP’s governing body has two To help South Somerset get ready, SWP members from each partner council: is hosting Question and Answer sessions Mendip Cllrs Tom Ronan, Matthew on its @somersetwaste Facebook page: Martin; Sedgemoor Cllrs Janet Keen,  Friday, 7 May (12noon-1pm) Andrew Gilling; Somerset County Cllrs  Tuesday 25 May (7-8pm) David Hall, Clare Paul (Vice Chair);  Wednesday 16 June (7-8am) Somerset West and Taunton Cllrs  Monday 5 July (7-8pm) Sarah Wakefield, David Mansell; South Somerset Cllrs Sarah Dyke (Chair), Tim Launched successfully in Mendip last Kerley. SWB agendas: somersetwaste. year, Recycle More will add the gov.uk/somerset-waste-board following items to South Somerset’s weekly recycling collections: Information on SWP services  Plastic pots, tubs and trays somersetwaste.gov.uk for advice and  Food and drink cartons ezine sign-up. Follow @Somersetwaste  Small batteries on social media. SWP manages waste  Small electrical items services for all Somerset councils.