New bin collection calendars on their way

New bin collection calendars will be coming through doors over the next few days – telling residents which bin to put out and when plus details of all the rubbish you can recycle.

Some areas of the borough will have a new garden waste collection day or week. If you live in the following areas, be sure to check your calendar to see if this affects you:

• Parts of Sudden and Norden 
• Rhodes and Heywood Old Road 
• Cheapside 
• Boarshaw 
• Stannycliffe 
• Slattocks

The calendar has been designed to help enourage residents to recycle more and waste less so less rubbish goes to landfill. Besides setting out the dates for when to put bins out for the next 12 months, it gives  tips on how to ‘slim your bin’ and lists everything Rochdale Borough Council can collect for recycling.

Dennis Pennill, Waste Services Manager at Rochdale Borough Council said: “Last year, residents helped us to recycle a third of all their household rubbish. This is a fantastic achievement, and we want to do as much as we can to help local people recycle even more and waste less so we can divert as much waste from landfill as possible.

“I hope the new collection calendars go someway to help people better understand what we can recycle and how to manage household waste more easily.”

The council is on a mission to reduce how much rubbish it sends to landfill. Landfilling rubbish has high environmental and financial costs, and the council wants to reduce the amount of taxpayers’ money that is spent on landfill tax and spend it on providing essential council services instead.

By reducing the amount of rubbish you produce, reusing anything you can and recycling as much as possible – you’re supporting the environment and letting council money go further.