New food bin and garden bin roll out for High Peak residents

Alliance Environmental Services, High Peak Borough Council’s waste and recycling collection partner, has delivered a small kitchen caddy, a larger outdoor caddy, a roll of compostable bags, and information about the new service, to all residential properties in the borough in readiness for the start of the food waste collections.

The roll out started on Monday September, 14 and executive councillor for climate change and environment, Jean Todd, said: “We’ve provided every household with the food collection caddies and information about the changes to food and garden waste collections so everyone knows what to expect as these changes come into effect.

“The information is also available on our website where residents who haven’t yet subscribed to the garden waste collection service and want to do so can sign up. We’re also offering subsidised composting bins for people who don’t want to subscribe and prefer to manage their waste at home.”

All food waste will be taken in the green caddy including meat and fish, raw and cooked food including bones, dairy products, such as eggs/egg shells and cheese, raw and cooked vegetables and fruit, bread, cakes, pastries, rice, pasta, beans, tea bags and coffee grounds, mouldy and out of date food and leftover foods from plates. All food must be removed from its packaging

Residents living in properties with a communal bin store have received the small kitchen caddy and either outside caddies or a communal food bin.

Discretionary garden waste collections have also now ended and an opt-in subscription scheme has also been introduced.

Everyone wishing to continue to benefit from this service can register and pay the £46 annual subscription fee on the Council’s website.

When the new service starts, residents will only be allowed to place garden waste in their green-lidded bin this includes grass,leaves, weeds (not Japanese Knotweed or Ragwort), flowers and plants, hedge clipping or pruning's along with branches and twigs and windfall fruit.

If any other waste is found in the garden bin upon collection it will not be emptied.

Councillor Todd added: “Thanks to all our residents in advance for their co-operation as these new services begin.”