Christmas refuse collection
December 18, 2009 Iain Roberts 2 Comments

I posted the details for Christmas refuse collection last month, but as it’s almost upon us, here it is again and in more detail.

Stockport residents whose recycling and refuse collection day falls on a Friday need to be aware of various changes over the festive period. On Friday 25th December 2009 and Friday 1st January 2010 no refuse will be collection. These residents refuse will be collected on Saturday 2nd January 2010.

Bank Holiday Monday 28th December 2009, recycling and refuse collections will take place as normal.

For your recycling collections, please check your new recycling calendar. The household waste recycling centres (local tips) in Adswood, Rose Hill, Torkington and Bredbury are also open over the festive period. These sites will be closed on Friday 25th December and 1st January 2010 but will be open every other day, Monday to Sunday between 8.00am and 6.00pm.

For further information about recycling and refuse collections, please call 0161 217 6111, email stockportdirect@stockport.gov.uk or go to www.stockport.gov.uk/waste

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2 Comments

1
P Jordan
Monday 4 January 2010 - 7:02 pm

Following your info I left out my recycling bins out on Saturday 2nd January

Surprise surprise nobody turned up to collect

I am now holding a months worth of bottles and card.

I am expecting the bin men to tell me it’s now too heavy to shift.

Isn’t our council wonderful??????????

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iainroberts
Monday 4 January 2010 - 7:08 pm

The wording from the Council, which I passed on, seems to have caused a little confusion. Refuse collection was on 2nd Jan. As it says above, recycling was as detailed on the recycling calendars which, I’m told, say that there are no collections on the two Fridays.

Reading it again, I can see where the confusion comes from. It doesn’t even need rewording – just making “On Friday 25th…” into a new paragraph would have made it clearer that there were different arrangements for refuse and recycling. Well, I didn’t spot the issue, but I’ll mention it to the Council.

I will be querying the decision not to put on extra collections, especially for blue bins which we’d expect to fill up very quickly over Christmas.



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