Environment and recycling news – new bins special edition
Braintree District Council have now sent every address in the Braintree District a welcome pack with all the information you need to use the new recycling services coming from 1 June.
In your pack, you will find:
• A letter explaining your property’s arrangements and first dates for each new collection
• A collections calendar for the year, showing which bins go out on what dates
• A leaflet explaining what goes into each bin
You should have received your welcome pack by 26 May. If not, please get in touch.
Contact Braintree District Council https://www.braintree.gov.uk/xfp/form/140
Telephone: 01376 552525
Email: csc@braintree.gov.uk
Monday 25 May is a bank holiday so your collections that week will be one day later than usual.
This will be the last week of our current recycling and waste collections before the new system starts on Monday 1 June – you can continue to use your clear sacks for recycling until the revised collection days end on Saturday 30 May.
Bin and box deliveries almost complete
We have now delivered bins and boxes to almost all the households in the district.
The final remaining scheduled deliveries will be complete by 22 May.
We will complete any additional, by request deliveries by 31 May.
If you haven’t received your delivery, check our online tracker. If it is showing as N/A, please get in touch.
Say goodbye to clear sacks
From 1 June, we will no longer accept recycling in clear sacks.
Please put your dry, clean paper and card directly into your red-lidded bin or paper and card box, and your mixed recycling directly into your blue-lidded bin or mixed recycling box.
We are also no longer delivering clear sacks. If you need any for your final recycling collections in May, you can collect them from your nearest library or our Causeway House office in Bocking End, Braintree.
No food recycling caddy?
Recycling food is a great way to stop your grey bin from getting smelly and full, and it’s brilliant for the environment too.
When we collect your food recycling caddy, its contents go to an anaerobic digestion facility in east London, where it becomes biofuel and soil improver, meaning nothing is wasted!
Here’s what we accept in your food recycling caddy:
• meat and fish, both raw and cooked, including bones
• fruit and vegetables, both raw and cooked, including peelings
• dairy products such as yoghurt and cheese
• eggs and eggshells
• bread, cakes and pastries
• rice, pasta and beans
• uneaten food from plates and dishes
• tea bags and coffee grounds
• pet food
If you don’t have a food recycling caddy, we will bring one to your door. Complete the online form here, email us at csc@braintree.gov.uk or call on 01376 552525.
AHP collection application form now live
Applications for the new Absorbent Hygiene Products (AHP) collection service are now open.
If your household uses nappies or continence care products, you may be eligible for a free separate AHP collection.
What can be included?
Nappies, nappy bags and wipes, training pants and pull-ups, disposable bedpans and liners, continence care products, colostomy, stoma and catheter waste, feeding tubes, urine bottles, gloves, aprons and tissues and single use absorbent bed sheets.
If your application is approved, you’ll receive a welcome pack explaining how and when to present your sacks. The service will launch on 1 June alongside the other changes to recycling and general waste collections. The sacks (supplied free of charge) will be collected twice in every three week period. https://www.braintree.gov.uk/ahpcollections
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