With new recycling services launching across South Gloucestershire from next Monday (22nd November), new recruits have been trained and new vehicles have been delivered to help ensure the changes run as smoothly as possible for residents. South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and its recycling and resource management contractor, SITA UK, have recruited more than 30 new crew members and taken delivery
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A kerbside plastic bottle and food waste collection service is to be rolled out to every South Gloucestershire household in the biggest expansion of recycling services in 10 years. South Gloucestershire Council’s (SGC’s) Conservative administration has unveiled an ‘in principle’ agreement with its waste contractor SITA to overhaul the 25 year contract that had been agreed in 2000 by the
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Residents are being reminded that there will be changes to their refuse and recycling collections over the Christmas and New Year period. As collection teams will not be working Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Day, changes have been made to the collections schedule (full details here). Normal collections will be resumed the week commencing Monday 18 January. The
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South Gloucestershire Council and SITA are helping the district go greener by collecting Yellow Pages and other directories for recycling. SITA’s kerbside collections teams will now collect Yellow Pages, other directories and catalogues from households in the green recycling bag. Previously, Yellow Pages were not suitable for use in recycled paper because of the yellow colouring of the pages. In
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