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Thank you for patience during continued garden waste suspensions

Date Added: 06/08/2021

The suspension of garden waste collections across Central Bedfordshire will remain in place until further notice. We do not anticipate this service resuming in August, due to ongoing and significant LGV driver shortages.

We would like to apologise for the inconvenience and would like thank all our residents who are impacted by the suspension for their patience and ask them to continue to bear with us, whilst work is undertaken to resolve the disruption. We are asking all residents to not leave their garden waste bins out for collection during this time.

For now, along with our contractor FCC we are continuing to prioritise crews and drivers to focus on the collection of critical household waste such as clinical waste, residual waste (black bin) and dry recycling collections – all of which remain unaffected.

Like many local authorities – both locally and nationally - Central Bedfordshire has been significantly affected by a national shortage of LGV drivers as well as staff needing to self-isolate due to the ongoing pandemic.  The result of this labour market pressure, which is affecting the whole economy, means that our waste collection teams have been stretched to the limit.  We have been working with our contractors to increase efforts to stabilise crew numbers, to reduce the strain being caused.

Once garden waste collections resume, all residents will be updated on the situation via our website.

Waste disruption latest  

Use a tidy tip instead
Garden waste can still be recycled at any of the our four Household Waste Recycling Centres which are open seven days a week from 9am -5pm, including Bank Holidays.

Additional appointment slots have been added to help residents.

Book a tidy tip slot  

Try composting
Residents with enough space in their gardens could also start home composting their garden waste. Home composting is an excellent way to not only dispose of your garden waste, but also reuse it.

Home composting  

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