Another 2,000 homes will be receiving details about their new wheeled bin service from the council over the first two weeks of September.
The second part of the current roll-out of the scheme will see an extra 2,250 properties in Ramsgate receiving leaflets between Tuesday 1 and Friday 11 September, explaining how the service works. There will also be an information day for people to come along and find out more on Saturday 19 September between 11am and 1pm in Ellington Park, near the bandstand.
Collections for these homes are due to begin in late 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.
From Monday 7 September, 1,350 properties in Birchington, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Margate, Manston, Westbrook and Garlinge will be starting collections on the wheeled bin scheme.
To add these properties, changes are also being made to the current refuse collection, with changes to the day of collection for 5,000 homes which are still on the black bag scheme and 9,000 homes which are on the separate paper and cardboard collection rounds. Those properties affected by this change have already receiving leaflets, explaining the details.
Cllr. Shirley Tomlinson, Cabinet Member for Environmental Services, said: "This second part of our autumn wheeled bin roll-out will get 2,250 more homes on to this scheme and we are continuing to try to find the means to add a further 1,000 properties next spring. We're aware that people want to get their wheeled bins and that's why we are doing our best to make the most of our existing waste collection resources to extend the wheeled bins to as many properties as possible without incurring additional costs."
By the time the latest roll-out is completed, 45,200 homes across Thanet will be on the wheeled bin scheme, covering just over 70% of the households in Thanet.
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