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Everything you need in one place for your recycling and rubbish collections. Report a missed bin, find out your collection day, find your nearest Recycling Centre and have your questions answered.
Download your recycling calendar. You can also download audio versions
Blue week? Green week? Check your collection day for your recycling and rubbish collect...
Blue week? Green week? Check your collection day for your recycling...
Blue week? Green week? Check your collection day for your recycling and rubbish collections and find handy information on where to get recycling containers, your Zone Team & more.
Check stockists of bin liners for your food waste caddies. Please note that this is no...
Check stockists of bin liners for your food waste caddies. Please ...
Check stockists of bin liners for your food waste caddies. Please note that this is not geographical to your address, this is a list of stockists that are in your Zone.
Check Essex County Council's opening times for their Recycling Centres in Shrub End & W...
Check Essex County Council's opening times for their Recycling Cent...
Find details of Recycling Centres and their opening times.
Check Essex County Council's opening times for their Recycling Centres in Shrub End & West Mersea along with useful information on what not to bring and vehicle & site restrictions.
If you are new to the area and need to know whether we will be collecting your rubbish ...
If you are new to the area and need to know whether we will be coll...
If you are new to the area and need to know whether we will be collecting your rubbish from wheelie bins, you can find out here.
Ever wondered what you can and cannot recycle? We have tried to list as much as we can.
Ever wondered what you can and cannot recycle? We have tried to lis...
Helping you find out about all the things you can and cannot put out with your recycling and rubbish.
Saturday Freighter Service is being renamed to Household Items Drop-Off Service. You ca...
Saturday Freighter Service is being renamed to Household Items Drop...
Saturday Freighter Service is being renamed to Household Items Drop-Off Service. You can still drop off small loads of household items for us to take away.
Find your local recycling banks where you can take bottles, cans, plastics and textiles.
Find your local recycling banks where you can take bottles, cans, p...
Find your local recycling banks
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We have six multi-skilled and dedicated Neighbourhood teams with in-depth knowledge of local areas. They are on hand to report and solve problems quickly and efficiently, give advice and listen to your suggestions for your local area.
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Check when we sweep the roads, litter pick & clear leaves
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Check where Public Toilets are in the Town Centre & around the Borough.
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Continue to find information on what we maintain and what Essex County Council maintain.
Check what street fixtures we are responsible for maintaining.
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From 22 June 2020, rubbish and recycling collections will return to normal (excluding Textiles which remains suspended until further notice).
Households can continue to put out one additional 60-litre black bag of non-recyclable rubbish on a Blue Week on their usual collection day.
If you already have an agreed exemption in place with us for additional rubbish to be collected from your household, this service will continue.
Download your 2020/21 recycling calendar to see when we will be collecting in your area.
Since April we have recycled...
...of our waste!
