If you subscribe to the Somerset Waste Partnership’s popular garden waste collection scheme then it is almost time to renew your service.
Somerset Waste Partnership recycled over 40,000 tonnes of garden waste last year – equivalent to the weight of nearly 5,000 London buses. It was turned into compost – which you can be purchased from any of Somerset’s 16 recycling sites.
New garden waste subscribers are always welcome and are advised to join at the start of the financial year (April). The service costs £56.90 per year if you’re using a green wheelie bin or £28.40 for 10 pre-paid paper sacks. Full details are available on the SWP website. For those not renewing, garden waste collections will stop on 31st March.
Collection days for the forthcoming bank holidays are as follows:
| Usual collection day | Revised collection day |
| Good Friday – 19 April | Saturday 20 April |
| Easter Week Mon 22 – Fri 26 April |
All one day later (Friday pick-ups on Saturday 27 April) |
| Early May Bank Holiday Mon 6 – Fri 10 May | All one day later (Friday pick-ups on Saturday 11 May) |
| Spring Bank Holiday Mon 27 – Fri 31 May | All one day later (Friday pick-ups on Saturday 1 June) |
| Summer Bank Holiday Mon 26 – Fri 30 August | All one day later (Friday pick-ups on Saturday 31 August) |
The revised collection days above also apply to assisted, clinical waste and garden waste collections. No change to subsequent dates; all collections resume on usual days.
From Monday 1st April, All recycling sites are to open until 4pm on both Saturdays and Sundays, and will stay open later on weekdays – to 6pm in summer, 5pm in winter – from 1 April 2019. Sites scheduled to close on Mondays will also close on bank holiday Mondays.
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