Plymouth City Council is declaring a War on Weeds.
Over the coming months, extra staff will be assigned to the task of clearing main roads and neighbourhoods of unwanted growth.
Bulky waste collections will be returning this autumn.
The service, which was suspended in 2020 to allow for prioritisation of domestic collections, will begin again in October. Bookings will be taken from the end of September.
Plymouth's new administration has wasted little time in making a range of changes designed to make disposing of waste easier for residents.
New Council Leader Nick Kelly was chairing the first meeting of his new cabinet on Tuesday when he announced that the garden waste period would be extended, charges for non-household waste at Chelson Meadow will be scrapped and the delivery of new bins will now be free of charge.
We are going to be introducing charges to get rid of some types of waste at Chelson Meadow from January.
A new policy, which comes into effect on 26 January will mean that residents who bring soil, rubble, plasterboard and asbestos to the recycling centre will need to pay.
Residents are being urged to sign up for next year’s garden waste collections in plenty of time.
As announced earlier this year, the service will be moving from bags to wheeled bins, in line with industry best practice.
Registration is now open with households who register before 7 January able to receive delivery of their new wheelie bin free of charge.
Also in the registration process is the option to order either a 140 litre or a 240 litre bin.
We’re working on plans to switch our garden waste collection service from bags to wheelie bins for the 2021 season.
There’s lots of preparation work to do as this is a big change for approximately 38,000 people who use the service
As some residents will know, for the past few weeks we’ve been running a little bit behind on some of our waste collections rounds.
We are experiencing a few operational issues which have combined to mean that not all routes have been fully completed.