THURROCK’S getting ready for winter and the council’s waste and recycling team are leading the way with free bags for all that extra Christmas recycling.
Cllr Victoria Holloway, portfolio holder for environment, went to the council’s West Thurrock depot on Monday (5 November) to see the bags that are being given away to residents.
She said: “Some families find that they have to put their recyclable waste into their green or grey bins at Christmas because the blue one gets filled up really quickly.
“This year we are working with are partners Nordic Recycling to provide clear plastic bags for extra recycling which can be placed beside the blue bin on collection day over the Christmas and New Year holiday.”
The bags will be available from the council offices, libraries and area offices, from village stores and the council’s waste and recycling team will be at a number of local Supermarkets across the borough handing them out over the next few weeks.
Cllr Holloway said: “This is the first time that we have been able to provide recycling bags to our residents thanks to Nordic Recycling, the company that handle all of Thurrock’s recycling. This is a way people can continue to recycle wherever possible.”
Details of the stores where the bags are being given away are available below.
Thurrock’s Christmas collection schedule has also been announced this week.
There will be no collections after Friday 21 December until Thursday, 27 December when the previous Monday schedule will be collected, with Tuesday’s collected on the Friday (28 December).
Scheduled Wednesday collections will be picked up on New Year’s Eve, and Thursday’s on Wednesday, 2 January. The Friday collections will be on Thursday (3 January) and normal rounds will start again on Monday, 7 January.
Christmas waste and recycling collections
Friday 21 December – normal collection day
Monday 24 December moves to Thursday 27 December
Tuesday 25 December moves to Friday 28 December
Wednesday 26 December moves to Monday 31 December
Thursday 27 December Moves to Wednesday 2 January
Friday 28 December moves to Thursday 3 January
Monday 7 January normal days collections resume
Supermarkets
Sainsbury’s Thurrock Friday 9 Nov 9.30am -11.30am
Sainsbury’s Thurrock Friday 9 Nov 5pm – 7pm
Sainsbury’s Thurrock Saturday 10 Nov 9am – 11am
Asda Tilbury Thursday 15 Nov 6pm – 8.00pm
Tesco Express Stanford-le-Hope Friday 16 Nov 2.30pm – 4.30pm
Morrisons Corringham Tuesday 20 Nov noon – 2pm
Morrisons Corringham Wednesday 21 Nov 4pm – 6pm
Tesco Express Stanford-le-Hope Friday 23 Nov 2.30pm – 4.30pm
Asda Tilbury Friday 30 Nov 10am – noon
Morrisons Grays Friday 7 Dec 5pm – 7pm
Morrisons Grays Friday 14 Dec 10am – noon
Village stores
Bags will also be available from the following stores from 9 November.
High Road Orsett
High Road Horndon-on-the-Hill
Church Road Bulphan
Aveley Community Hall
What a monumental decision by the council
If your bin is full up,you put surplus in a bag,and leave it next to the bin
i wonder how many chains of command this had to pass through,before
the obvious was stated !!!!!
Thats all well and good putting bags of rubbish out but if we get a small splattering of snow will the Binmen actually be around to pick it up unlike last year when they seemed too scared to venture out?