Brown bins to be emptied every week, council says

Brown bins in East Yorkshire will be emptied weekly from February, the council has said.

Weekly collections for most of the region, including Bridlington, Driffield, Holderness, Market Weighton and Goole, will begin on 9 February.

The scheme will be rolled out to remaining areas, including Beverley, Cottingham, Willerby, Brough, Anlaby and Hessle, in February next year.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council said all collection days would change when the weekly rounds begin and households would be sent an information pack with the new dates.

As part of the government's Simpler Recycling initiative, all local authorities must collect food waste from households on a weekly basis.

Brown bins, which are used for food and garden waste, are currently collected fortnightly.

The council said it had created 50 new jobs and would get 16 extra bin lorries to help with the new rounds.

Councillor Paul West said: "Thank you in advance to residents for supporting the new weekly brown bin collections.

"People in the East Riding are among the very best recyclers in the country and I have no doubt we can rely on them to back these new changes and recycle as much food waste as they can."

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