Wheelie bin roll-out

Another 3,000 properties across Thanet will be joining the council’s wheeled bin scheme over the next few months.

The first roll-out will see 1,000 homes joining the scheme, with the first collections due at the beginning of September. Those properties who are being added into the scheme will be receiving leaflets informing them of the details during this week (week beginning Monday 13 July). The homes are located in Birchington, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Margate, Manston, Westbrook and Garlinge.

The extra properties will be added on to the existing wheeled bin rounds to bring them up to capacity. The roads on this roll-out are either near to existing wheeled bin areas or can easily be incorporated into an existing round.

This will be followed by an additional 2,000 properties, mainly in Margate and Ramsgate, with collections due to start in end October / early November.

Under the scheme, waste that cannot be recycled is collected one week from the black lidded bin, while recyclable items, such as recycling plastic bottles, tins, cans, paper and cardboard, are then collected the following week in the blue lidded bin.

Cllr. Shirley Tomlinson, Cabinet Member for Environmental Services, said: “This roll-out is part of the council’s ongoing work to try and get as many properties as possible on to the wheeled bin scheme and has been planned for some time. However, these additions to the wheeled bin scheme may well be the last for some time, as the existing rounds that we have will now be filled to capacity. Much as we’d love to get wheeled bins out to every suitable property in Thanet, doing that would require considerable additional investment into new rounds and we just simply don’t have the money to do that at the moment. We’re currently investigating ways that we can roll the scheme out further, but that could take some time.”

By the time the latest roll-out is completed, 44,000 homes across Thanet will be on the wheeled bin scheme, covering nearly 70% of the households in Thanet within our existing resources.