PLANS to change Rugby’s bin collection days have been put on hold.
Blue, black and garden waste bins will continue to be collected on their current days, after Rugby Borough Council (RBC) paused its planned reorganisation.
The one change going ahead is the introduction of food waste collections, which start on Monday (July 6). These will be collected on the day specified on the envelopes residents received with their food waste caddies.
Originally, from July 6 onwards the council intended that residents’ bins would be collected on a revised timetable so that each resident’s bins would be collected on the same day each week.
But that plan has been put on ice because changes needed at the Hunters Lane waste collection depot will take more time to complete.
The council says it will write to residents again before any future changes to collection days are introduced.
The food waste collection service is being introduced as advertised, and the collection day was specified in the collection calendar delivered to residents with their food waste caddies.
Coun Sam Edwards, RBC’s Portfolio holder for Environment and Climate, said: “We would rather be straight with residents: the work we needed to complete at the depot in order to reorganise the borough’s waste collections is not finished. As a result, we will not be changing anyone’s collections at this time.
“Blue-lid, black-lid, and green garden waste bins will be collected as they currently are, and we will introduce the food waste caddy collections from Monday July 6 as planned.”
Visit rugby.gov.uk/app to download the Rugby App, which includes the most up-to-date information on bin collections.
