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Bottle Banks Scrapped: Recycling Goes Home!
10 Feb
Summary
- Residents can now recycle glass bottles and jars from home.
- Flats will receive new weekly food waste collections.
- Some bin collection days are changing from March 30.
Central Bedfordshire is implementing a significant overhaul of its recycling provisions, which includes the discontinuation of bottle banks. Residents are being transitioned to a kerbside glass recycling system, allowing them to place glass bottles and jars directly into their existing dry recycling bins or orange sacks. This change eliminates the need for trips to dedicated bottle banks. Additionally, households in flats will benefit from new weekly food waste collection services, ensuring all residents can recycle food waste.
These enhancements are designed to make recycling more straightforward and consistent for everyone. The council has noted that to support increased material collection and the new services, including food waste collections for flats, some collection rounds require reorganisation. Consequently, residents will see changes to their bin collection days starting March 30.
New food waste caddies and bins for flat residents will be delivered between late February and mid-March. While bottle banks will be phased out, glass recycling will remain accessible at the authority's four Household Waste Recycling Centres. Residents will receive detailed information via post, and updated collection schedules will be available on the council's website.
