Recycling collections in Tameside to change to every three weeks as part of cash saving plans
manchestereveningnews.co.ukdirect to your inboxRecycling collections are to move from fortnightly to once every three weeks as part of budget plans put forward by cash-strapped Tameside council.Currently, bins for dry recycling are collected every two weeks in the borough, along with general waste, with brown bins containing food and garden waste picked up once a week.However under the budget proposals for the next financial year, the town hall intends to move both blue and black bins to three-weekly collections.Blue bins are for paper, cartons, cardboard and junk mail while black bins are for plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, aluminium foil and cans and tins.Officers say that under the existing collection rotas more than 12 million bins are collected by staff.
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