Brown bin collections suspended across Stoke-on-Trent
The garden waste collection service will be suspended from Monday
Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s garden waste collection service will be temporarily suspended from Monday 2 August 2021.
This is due to a number of staff self-isolating and staffing shortages that have caused delays to waste and recycling services.
Councillor Abi Brown, leader of Stoke-on-Trent City Council said:
“Unfortunately, staffing shortages have recently caused some delays to our waste and recycling services. In order to minimise any further disruption, we have made the difficult decision to suspend the garden waste kerbside collection service and redirect available resources into the statutory household refuse and recycling collections.
“This decision has not been taken lightly, and we know that many residents are using their gardens at the moment and generating garden waste, but the shortage of drivers and refuse loaders means we, like many other local authorities, are simply unable to provide this service as normal. We are doing everything we can to minimise the impact on residents and all available staff are also being redeployed to the waste and recycling service to ensure we can continue to prioritise statutory collections – we will continue to provide both residual (grey bin) and recycling (blue bin) collections. These should be presented as usual.
“We’d like to thank residents for their patience and to our staff for their continued hard work during this challenging time.”
Residents can use their grey bins for overflow garden waste if required for the following acceptable brown bin items: Grass cuttings, weeds, garden plant waste (remove excess soil), small branches, hedge trimmings, food waste, bones, tea bags, and coffee grounds.
The following brown bin items are not accepted in grey bins: Soil, compost and rubble.
Brown bin collections in the following wards are affected:
• Abbey Hulton and Townsend
• Baddeley, Milton and Norton
• Eaton Park
• Burslem Central
• Birches Head and Central Forest Park
• Etruria and Hanley
• Hanley Park and Shelton
• Moorcroft
• Sneyd Green
• Joiners Square
• Ford Green and Smallthorne
• Burslem Park
• Little Chell and Stanfield
• Bradeley and Chell Heath
• Great Chell and Packmoor
• Goldenhill and Sandyford
• Tunstall
• Boothen and Oakhill
• Penkhull and Stoke
• Springfields and Trent Vale
• Etruria and Hanley
• Hartshill and Basford
The city council’s Household Waste Recycling Centres remain open and will accept garden waste.
Residents affected during this period are requested to present their garden waste bins for collection on the next scheduled collection day during the week commencing Monday, 16 August 2021.
There is no confirmation yet if services will resume at this date, but it is anticipated there should be some collections resuming.
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