New bin collections - read the small print

South Glos residents will be receiving a new bin collection calendar shortly, in the form of a tag hung on their black bins. Some people will have a different collection day - but even if your collection day stays the same, there may still be changes.

For example, our street has collections on Tuesdays at the moment, and the new calendar says it's still Tuesdays. But we had a black bin collection this week, and we're going to have another black bin collection next week. The green bin will be collected the week after. Then we'll be back to the usual black, green, black, green... routine.

Obviously there could be some people that won't get a black bin collection for three weeks. The council say they are making special arrangements: "To help households with a particularly long period between black bin or green box collections SITA will provide an extra collection. These households will be notified by letter to give them all the details".

More details about the collection changes are on the South Glos website.