4 October a pilot starts to change the recycling and rubbish collections to 10,000 residential homes and flats – street properties.

Attached is the only information I’ve received so far on who and where it will affect.

Basic premise is recycling is still every week but organic matter will be also be collected. All other rubbish will be collected fortnightly. The dreaded fortnightly collections – this shouldn’t be an issue if the organic waste process and collections work well.

One unresolved issue was no disposal contract of the collected organic waste yet…this really worried me as the pilot will disintegrate if people find all their collection efforts are in vain. (Monday 27/9 contract in place to take the waste 50miles to Isle of Sheppey for disposal).

Until I find out a lot more please feel free to email me with any concerns or issues. We absolutely must increase the recycling rate but this pilot is very rushed without any consultation and has lots of potential to go wrong. So any problems please let me know right away so we can keep it working.

Disappointed that the pilot hasn’t included any blocks of flats as they’ll be the biggest challenge with most to learn as they don’t have front gardens to keep extra wheelie bins.