Severe Weather and Waste Recycling News

SWP is distributing severe weather guidance cards via recycling boxes – see the attached copy – reminding residents of the procedure if severe weather disrupts services. We urge residents to keep the cards for reference.

We would be grateful if you could forward this information as soon as possible to parish councillors and your local community by email, and use the attached copy of the card on your website or noticeboards, or in local newsletters. If you need printed copies of the card information, please let me know.

Safety of the public and collection crews is the key issue that will decide if services need to be suspended but efforts will be made to complete collections when conditions improve.

The card states: “In severe weather, recycling and refuse crews will try to keep collecting if it is safe. If your collection is missed, please be patient; we will try to return once conditions improve, working late and on Saturdays to catch up.

“Please put out recycling and refuse by 7am for the next three working days; if we have not been back by then, please take it back in and put out by 7am on your next usual collection day.

“If your collection is delayed, extra amounts of regular waste will be accepted: please put rubbish in black sacks, recycling in carrier bags and food in covered buckets or in black sacks with other rubbish.

“In very bad conditions, we may have to suspend collecting garden and bulky waste to give priority to the main services. If our clinical waste service is interrupted, we will get back as soon as possible.”

As the card states: in the event of severe weather, guidance and updates will be posted on www.somersetwaste.gov.uk, our Facebook page www.facebook.com/somersetwaste and Twitter feed @somersetwaste, and sent to local radio and district council customer services.

Download the postcard which you should have received in your recycling box here:

Bad_Weather_Postcard.pdf