Food and garden waste bins likely for Herefordshire homes
The Council's due to make a decision on kerbside collections next week
Herefordshire households are likely to get new weekly kerbside food and garden waste collections within a year.
The Council’s cabinet of leaders are expected to approve next week (May 1st) proposals for a new household food waste collection regime, which all councils are required to have in place by next March, along with an optional, paid-for domestic garden waste collection service.
The moves will help the council meet its own recycling targets, which it hopes will go from the current 40% of waste to 58%.
Existing household waste and non-food recycling collections will be unaffected.
The Council says it is seeking funding from central government, yet to be confirmed, “to prepare for a smooth introduction of the service”.
Once this has been secured, it plans to issue all households in the county with a small food waste caddy to use in the kitchen and a larger outdoor caddy which will be collected each week.
Meanwhile a fortnightly, year-round garden waste collection service is also planned from next year, which households would have to opt into at a proposed cost of £60 a year.
Employing new brown bins, this “will replace the existing green garden sack service by the end of March 2026”, the council said.