WHEELIE bins will be delivered to Wokingham borough homes from later this month – ahead of a change to rubbish collections.
Wokingham Borough Council has announced it will begin delivering the new black wheelie bins for general waste from Monday, May 20.
However, the council has said people should continue using their blue general waste bags until the changeover begins on August 12.
Until then, people should aim to put out ‘no more than one blue bag per week, along with their usual green recycling bags and food waste bin’.
The coming changes to waste collection means Wokingham Borough Council will only collect general waste once a fortnight, the same with recycling. Food waste will still be collected every week.
The Conservative opposition group opposes the changes.
They said residents wanted to keep weekly collections – and said that if they’d been elected to control the council last month they would have reversed the change to fortnightly collections.
Ruling Liberal Democrat council leaders say the new scheme will improve recycling in the borough and save money.
Leader Councillor Stephen Conway said: “We’re proud of how much we recycle already, but we need to do even better and these waste collection changes are key to this.”
