Missed bins over Christmas

The joint waste service are currently facing a number of challenges with collections in the borough. They will be focusing solely on scheduled collections for the next few days. Unfortunately this means they will be unable to return to any reports of missed collections except where the household is an assisted collection.  Instead they will take side waste on the next scheduled collection.  

If your bin has been missed please email waste.strategy@lichfielddc.gov.uk
 
We are extremely sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience at this time.

Christmas 2022 - Refuse and recycling collections reminder

There will be no changes to bin collections over the festive period this year. As Christmas and New Year both fall on weekends, it means black bin waste and blue bin recycling will be collected on your normal bin day. The garden waste service will resume w/c Jan 31..

Our waste services are jointly operated with Lichfield District Council.

Find out when your bins will be emptied using the online bin calendar (on our partner's Lichfield District Council website). 

MISSED BINS 

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If your bin has been missed and not stated on this web page as a missed collection, please call us on 0345 0020022 or fill in the online missed bin form.

Bins and recycling - Covid advice - Helping our waste and recycling teams To help protect our waste and recycling teams as they empty bins across the district, please follow this advice:  If you have COVID-19 symptoms or you have a confirmed case in your household, please dispose of your personal waste, such as tissues and disposable cleaning cloths, securely within a plastic bag that is tied up. With clean hands, place the bag into another plastic bag, tie it securely and kept it separate from other waste. After setting aside for 72 hours, place the bag in your black bin. Other household waste can be disposed of as normal. If you live in a building with communal waste areas, please store the personal waste bin bags as above for at least 72 hours before putting them in the communal bins. Wash your bin handles As an extra precaution, we are asking our residents to clean their bin handles before and after emptying. This will help to protect you and and our waste and recycling teams. Thank you for your support. Additional advice: Please do not add used tissues or kitchen roll to your blue bins. They cannot be recycled and could mean our truck-load of waste is rejected by the recycling plant. Please do not add extra side waste with your black bins. We will not be able to collect it. You can add folded up cardboard that won't fit in your bin on your blue bin collection day.

Please make sure your bins are out by 6am by the kerbside (at your usual collection point) on the day of your collection.

Report a damaged or lost bin here. Please note there is now a £20.50 charge to replace lost or stolen black refuse bins only. This will increase to £20.75 on 1 April 2021.

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Need help getting your bin to the kerbside?  If you need help getting your bin to the kerbside - perhaps you are disabled or you struggle to move a heavy bin, why not speak to our team about an assisted collection? Either call our team on 0345 002 0022 or fill in the book an assisted collection form on our partners Lichfield District Council's website.