Households across the city are starting to receive their new wheelie bins, but they can't be used yet.
Milton Keynes City Council last month started the delivery of over 300,000 wheelie bins to households across Milton Keynes.
The city council expects that it will take around 12 weeks to complete the roll-out, with households that have been assessed as unsuitable for the bins receiving sacks in August.
This week, the city council will begin to make deliveries to households in the following areas:
- Beanhill
- Bletchley
- Bow Brickhill
- Browns Wood
- Broughton
- Campbell Park
- Caldecotte
- Fenny Stratford
- Fishermead
- Glebe Farm
- Little Brickhill
- Oldbrook
- Old Farm Park
- Olney
- Springfield
- Walnut Tree
- Wavendon
- Willen
- Woburn Sands
- Woolstone
The brand new bins are being delivered taped shut, the city council says, printed with a reminder to not start using the bins until the week of 28th August.
The bins will also come with a leaflet filled with information on which week to put out which recycling bin.
The move to wheelie bins comes as part of MK City Council's aim to be a 'cleaner, greener and safer place'. According to the city council, the change will mean:
- Higher levels of recycling
- Better quality recyclable materials
- Lower rates of injuries for residents and to staff moving sacks
- Less street litter from sack spillage
- Simpler to monitor misuse of the bins, to support better recycling
Currently, residents in Milton Keynes are said to use 11 million single use recycling sacks annually.
Milton Keynes City Council has a target to increase recycling rates to more than 60%, currently 52%.
As well as new bins, a new state of the art 65-vehicle waste collection fleet will be introduced, producing lower carbon emissions which cut fuel consumption and emissions by around 10%.
