RESIDENTS in Wokingham will start receiving their household waste blue bags for 2017/2018 from next week.
From Monday (13), more than five million blue bags will start to be delivered by Wokingham Borough Council (WBC).
WBC expect it will take approximately five weeks to deliver 80 bags, in two rolls of 40, to every household in the borough.
All bags should be delivered by the end of March to cover households from April, 2017 to March, 2018.
Residents who have already registered as a larger household of five or more people will automatically receive their additional bags by July. Any new residents to the borough, or anyone needing to register as a larger household, should visit www.wokingham.gov.uk or contact the borough council’s customer services, where you can also request a new or replacement black recycling box.
As part of the council’s kerbside recycling scheme, residents can also continue to recycle food cans, drink cans, paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and aerosols.
Cllr Angus Ross, executive member for environment, said: “As you can imagine, delivering more than five million blue bags to some 65,000 properties across the Wokingham Borough is a mammoth task and will take our waste contractor Veolia almost a month to complete.
“Although this is the allocation up until the end of March 2018, and equates to one and a half bags a week, we ask residents to try and reduce their household waste where possible and recycle as much as they can by using the kerbside recycling scheme, household recycling centres and recycling banks available across the borough.”
