Bin collections will not need to be changed over the festive period across Lichfield and Burntwood, council chiefs have said.
Calendars are being distributed online to inform households of dates over the festive period and during 2022.
Cllr Ashley Yeates, cabinet member for climate change and recycling, said the festive period would not see collections needing to be changed.
“As Christmas and New Year both fall on a weekend this year, our residents can put out their bins on their normal bin days over the festive period.
“We’ve taken the decision to only publish bin calendars online, as there are no changes to communicate for the festive period and we may need to tweak some bin rounds as we move to dual-stream recycling in the spring of next year.
“It will be much simpler to keep the calendars up to date online, and there is substantial environmental benefit from not printing and distributing calendars to around 80,000 households.
“We are working hard on our plans for how to introduce the blue reusable bags for paper and card recycling, which will include a multi-channel communications campaign to ensure households are fully informed about how the system will work and what it will mean to them.”
Cllr Ashley Yeates, Lichfield District Council
The new bin calendars are available online at www.lichfielddc.gov.uk/bincalendar.
How arrogant of the Cabinet Member for Climate change and Recycling to assume everybody in the area served by Lichfield District Council has access to online facilities and has a printer to download a hard drive copy of the bin collection data. What happens to those rate and collection fee paying residents who do not have access?
Ross, how will those residents know the Council have no intention of providing them with a hard copy of the bin collection timetable this year? John’s right, just another example of an organisation discriminating against people on the grounds of technology and shamefully many such organisations are public sector ones!
So now we are complaining that the council isn’t sending out leaflets to every household in Lichfield District to tell them that they don’t have to do anything differently than usual? Talk about a no-win situation.
If you havn’t got an I-phone or on the internet you are a hasbeen and need putting down according to the Tory government and Tory councils is there an edict that says you have to have all of this
Could I ask for one change in bin collections? Back in the day, bin collectors used to go around the back of your house and carry the bins to the lorry and tip them in. These days, it’s the householders who do all of the hard work. All the bin collectors have to is wheel the bin a few yards to the lorry, which does the emptying, and return them to the front of the property where they got them from. However, this last step seems to be too much for them, and they are discarded all over the pavements instead, creating an obstacle for everyone. Is it too much to ask that they complete their job properly?