Dear Residents
Recycling update/ Frequently asked Questions (FAQ’s)
Households in the Shropshire Council area will soon be able to request an additional wheelie bin for recycling their cans, glass and plastic at the kerbside.
The bin – – would replace the existing black recycling boxes, and help to increase the amount of waste recycled in Shropshire by providing households with a larger container.
It would also reduce the amount of waste lost to the recycling process after being blown out of the boxes on windy days.
It would make the storage of recycling more convenient for residents, and reduce the amount of bending and lifting for residents and waste and recycling crews.
A series of FAQ’s have been pulled together to help answer any queries.
The Council will communicate directly with you about this in the next few weeks. You will be asked to request a bin during a four-week period in the autumn, and they aim to start delivering bins before Christmas. The delivery process should take four to six months to cover the whole county. Bins requested outside the four-week window will be delivered later in 2022.
due to housing layout or the lack of storage space for the bin or having to take them down tracks to be emptied. These residents would be able to continue to use their existing waste containers as will those residents who simply prefer to use boxes.
, the same as those in standard use for general and garden waste. It will be a different colour, to differentiate it from the other bins in use.
Residents would be encouraged to retain and re-use the existing collection boxes for different purposes.
survey for the waste service conducted in 2018 included the question “What would make it easier to recycle at home?”. 45% of the responses stated that this would be achieved by the use of a wheeled bin for recycling. This is what I asked you all to take part in after we had plastic from boxes spread around villages and the countryside. Well done it worked!
The latest government recycling tables for English local authorities covering 2019/20, show that all of the top five performing Councils (Three Rivers, Vale of White Horse, South Oxfordshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, and St. Albans) use a bin for collecting dry recycling.