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Rubbish Collection Services
Details of black and green wheelie-bin collections for Kelvedon - Braintree District Council.
What can I recycle in Braintree District?
Braintree District Council collects a wide variety of household waste during its fortnightly collections that is entirely suitable for recycling. The advice about what can be included in our recycling bags is amended from time to time as the council finds different contractors to process the materials and as newer sorting machinery becomes available. This changing advice can lead to confusion and might mean that some waste that could be recycled is placed with ordinary rubbish destined for landfill instead, due only to the uncertainty.
For up to the minute advice about the types of materials acceptable for recycling, please refer to the What can I recycle? page on the Braintree District Council web site.
Special Green Waste collections
As several parts of Kelvedon cannot receive the wheelie-bin collections, which include fortnightly green waste disposal, Braintree District Council agreed to provide a refuse lorry collection solely for green waste. This service was run experimentally during 2007, with a collection lorry visiting St. Mary’s Road for a short period on eight specified dates.
Braintree District Council has advised the parish council that the service was under-used in Kelvedon in 2007 and, as a result, the service will not be provided during 2008.
The collection lorry will continue to visit Feering, where Kelvedon residents may also use it. The lorry will park in Glebe Gardens, Feering, for 20 minutes between 12:00pm and 12:20pm on the following Saturdays:
- 15 March 2008
- 19 April 2008
- 24 May 2008
- 28 June 2008
- 26 July 2008
- 23 August 2008
- 27 September 2008
- 25 October 2008
This service is for garden waste only: grass cuttings; shrub and hedge prunings; weeds, plants and leaves. Please note - no tree branches over 2" diameter and 24" in length can be accepted.
The clear message arising from the withdrawal of this service seems to be: ‘Use it or lose it’.