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If your blue bin and box didn’t get emptied yesterday then it should be dealt with today, according to Veolia.
Problems with collection lorries on Monday meant that around 12 roads in our area didn’t have their recycling collected. If you keep your bin and box left out today they should get emptied.
Sheffield residents recently moved to fortnightly collections, alternating between black wheelie bins one week and blue recycling bins/boxes the other.
The new edition of the Crosspool Clarion is going to press and will soon be falling on the doormats of all Crosspool households.
The latest issue includes:
Download Crosspool Clarion Summer 2011 (PDF, 1.5MB)
Some back issues of past editions of the Crosspool Clarion are also available to download.
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New Crookes Councillor Geoff Smith has been in touch and asked us to report back his findings on two waste management issues raised at Monday’s Open Meeting. Geoff writes:
As you know it has been agreed in principle that residents will be able to use these flexibly, deciding for themselves which one they use for glass etc and which for paper etc. The date 23 May was mentioned. This is not the date for Crookes ward. This is the date for the north west and the south east of the city. The rest, including Crosspool, will be some time in September (date to be announced). All residents will receive a letter of information/explanation before the September date.
As explained at the meeting, these are in use again and can be collected from libraries and the town hall. When you have filled them they should be left (visibly) inside your property and you should ring Veolia to ask them to be collected. This will be done within 20 days. Reasonably someone suggested that it would be better if there was a set day for collection for everyone in an area. This is what happens at the moment in the south east on a four weekly cycle and this is about to be rolled out across the whole city. There should be an announcement shortly.
The Yorkshire Post and Sheffield Star report that from next year, the council will allow Crosspool householders to select how they use their blue bin and blue box for recycling.
With the current system, residents must use the bin for bottles and the box for paper. But from April, you will be able to choose which you use for which type of item.
The news will come as a relief to elderly residents, some of whom found the boxes cumbersome to move when full of paper and also susceptible to windy and wet weather due to the detachable lid.
Crosspool householders are reminded that Veolia are due to collect green waste sacks this week (commencing 11 October 2010) in S10.
The final monthly S10 collection will then be in the week commencing 8 November 2010.
After the November collection, the service will revert back to the previous procedure, where residents are required to to phone Veolia on 0114 2734 567 option 1 and then leave them outside property boundaries for collection on the arranged date.
Council information about green sacks and garden waste
The Veolia recycling roadshow is outside Spar today (Friday 30 July 2010).
It is giving local residents a chance to answer questions and feed back comments regarding the recent changes to recycling and the introduction of blue boxes for households.
Information about changes to our recycling service
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