Due to the exceptionally hot weather and health alert, we’ve taken the decision to cancel recycling and garden waste collections tomorrow (Thursday 25 June 2026) for health and safety reasons.

We’re really sorry to anyone this affects and thank you in advance for your understanding. With temperatures forecast to reach 35°C after lunch, we need to ensure our crews have completed their rounds before it becomes too hot to work safely.

To do this, we’ll be asking our recycling and garden crews to help on black bin collections, and we’ll also be diverting all the waste collection vehicles we can to help with black bins. Any remaining crews will help with food waste caddy deliveries in the specialist caddy delivery vehicles we’ve hired for this purpose.

If your blue bin or bag is due to be emptied tomorrow, we’ll empty it on your next normal blue bin day, when we’ll also take extra side waste. If your garden waste bin is due to be emptied, we’ll empty it on your next normal brown bin day and we’ll also put on an additional collection at the end of the year to make up for your missed collection.

We are so sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for supporting our efforts to look after our crews during this period of extreme heat.

We are in contact with all known rough sleepers in the district to encourage them into accommodation during the current weather conditions, as part of our severe weather emergency protocol, which is now active. If you are concerned about a rough sleeper who you feel needs help, please call us on 01543 308000 or outside of office hours call 01527 406643. Find out more about our severe weather emergency protocol.

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