From the District Council website today:
“From Monday 28 December, SITA crews will be collecting the bins which were unable to be collected during the week commencing 21 December.
However, there will be no collections of compostables until the week commencing 4 January 2010.
Residents are asked to not leave their compostables bins out for collection until the week commencing 4 January, however, if resident?s compostables bins are full before this time then compostable material will be accepted in the Non Recyclables purple lidded bin. Please note that this is a one off arrangement due to the disruptions that have been experienced and residents should by no means continue to put their compostables into their Non Recyclables bin after this time.
Updated 29 December ? 4pm
On Wednesday 30 December and Thursday 31 December non-recyclable collections from last week will be collected from Great Wakering, Paglesham & Canewdon, and on Saturday 2 January recyclables will be collected from these areas.
The recyclable collections from the rest the District will be on the normal day for collection. SITA will be collecting any surplus recyclable waste presented as long as it is not in black plastic sacks. Any non recyclable bins presented will also be emptied.
From 4 January normal collections will be resumed with compostables and non recyclable collections on the normal day of collection.”
There’s still lots of green and yellow bins waiting kerbside – clearly many residents are still unaware of the situation.