Check Your New Bin Collection Changes Online

Reading residents can now check their new bin collection dates online.

Waste and recycling collection days are changing from Monday 9 June to create a more efficient and resilient service. Almost every household will see a shift in either their collection day, week, or both as the Council makes these important changes.

Residents can now check their new collection days by going to www.reading.gov.uk/bin-calendar, entering their postcode and clicking 'get full year'.

The online calendar shows each household’s current collection dates as normal up to Friday 6 June, followed by the new collection schedule from Monday 9 June onwards. The new schedules also include altered collection days following Bank Holidays.

Residents are also being asked to look out in the post for their own personalised bin calendar which will be distributed next week and which they can keep to ensure they always get the right collection day and put the right bin out for collection each week.

The third way residents can make sure they’re ready for the change is to download the Scrapp app for free from phone app stores. Once downloaded, residents can enter their address details and easily set up weekly reminders for the night before their collection day. After adding your location as England then Reading Borough Council, a bin reminders section on your homepage allows you to ‘tap to subscribe’. The reminders are completely free and could be useful as you get used to your new days.

The bin collection changes in Reading follow a review of existing collection schedules which helped to identify ways in which the service can operate more effectively and efficiently.

The benefits of the new service are:

• A more resilient service: Only recycling or residual waste will be collected across Reading on any given day, instead of being split between the two. This means it will be easier to quickly cover any unforeseen vehicle or staffing issues which might previously have resulted in incomplete rounds
• Expanding our service capacity to be able to provide new kerbside collections, such as glass when that is brought on board for Reading
• Increasing capacity to meet housing growth and a bigger population which puts an ever-increasing pressure on collections

There will be no changes to the frequency of service, with recycling and residual waste collections still be collected on alternate weeks and food waste still collected weekly.

At the initial launch of the new collection rounds, some streets will experience a three-week gap in one of their waste collections following the start of the new schedules. The residents that this will affect will be able to present any excess recycling or general waste that accumulates as a result on their next scheduled recycling or general waste collection date after the new rounds begin borough-wide on Monday 9 June.

Karen Rowland, Lead Councillor for Environmental Services and Community Safety, said:

“It is really important residents now take some time to familiarise themselves with their new bin collection days to ensure they know to put the right bin out, on the right day. They can do that online at www.reading.gov.uk/bin-calendar.

“We are certain this will prove to be a positive change for Reading which will help create a more resilient and consistent service, but we need residents to do their bit too, by getting to know their new dates which become effective from Monday 9 June.

“We know and appreciate there will always be a settling in period for any change of this magnitude, but by checking online and keeping their individual bin calendars, which will be posted out to households from next week, residents can help these changes bed in as quickly as possible.”