Changes to East Renfrewshire bin collection

The council is extremely proud of our excellent recycling rates in East Renfrewshire, however it is currently operating with half the normal workforce among refuse collection staff, so this decision has been taken to provide residents with as much waste collection as possible and to prevent any confusion over which bin to put out each week:

∙ All of your household waste can be put into the grey bin including cans, glass, plastic, paper, card, food, garden and general waste.

∙ All grey bin waste will be sent to a special recovery centre and converted to green energy - it will not be sent to landfill.

∙ Final collections of green bins (cans/plastic/glass) will be collected this week (w/c 30 March) - there will be no further blue, brown or green bin collections from next week (w/c 6 April) onwards.

∙ Please do not leave additional waste in bags beside your grey bin - it isn’t safe for staff to touch and it won’t be collected.

∙ If you do have excess garden waste, we suggest finding an area in the garden suitable to allow it to compost naturally.

∙ If you have somewhere you can safely store your blue and green bin waste (paper, card, glass and plastic), please do so and it will be collected when normal service is resumed.

∙ No further requests for additional grey bins will be accepted.

∙ There will be no further special uplift bookings taken. Any pre-booked uplifts will be collected.

∙ The council still aim to collect your bin on the normal collection day.

The following services will continue to operate as normal:

∙ Trade waste collections.

∙ Litter bin emptying and manual street sweeping.

Recycling centres at Greenhags and Barrhead are now closed, following the latest announcement by the government on Monday 23 March.

If you’ve symptoms of Coronavirus or live with someone who does, you must store your personal waste such as used tissues and disposable cleaning cloths securely within disposable plastic bags.

When appropriate, these bags should be removed and placed into another bag and securely tied or sealed and kept separate from other waste.

This must be stored for at least 72 hours inside your property before being put in your non-recyclable waste bin. Other household waste can be disposed of as normal.