Easter Bank Holiday Waste and Recycling information for Sidmouth

East Devon District Council has set out how bin collections will be managed over the Easter Bank Holiday in Sidmouth.

Nub News contacted EDDC today to find out more about when residents' bins will be collected.

Bin collections will take place a day after the normal collection dates. So, if you're bins are scheduled to be collected on Good Friday (April 10) they will instead be collected on Saturday, April 11.

If your bins are scheduled to be collected on Easter Monday they will instead be collected on Tuesday, April 14.

A spokesperson for EDDC tweeted about the changes earlier today: "Good Friday recycling and refuse collections will be made on Saturday. Thank you. Please check our website, for daily information relating to your collections. Information will be explained in the box."

Fluctuating staffing levels at EDDC have meant that the council has had to prioritise certain bin collections over others.

It has prioritised food waste, rubbish and dog waste collections to protect public health.

EDDC has also suspended all Green waste collections, until further notice.

A spokesperson for EDDC said: "Our operations team will decide how many collections we can make on a daily basis depending on how many staff we have available to work.

"We will give priority to food waste, refuse and dog bin collections for public hygiene reasons. We will only suspend these collections as a last resort

"Our second priority will be to make as many dry recycling (green sack and green recycling box) and clinical waste collections as we can each day depending upon staffing levels.

"We will make as many bulky household items and green waste collections and make as many new container deliveries as staffing allows, however, these will be given a lower priority."

The council has also asked dog walkers to take home dog waste at the moment as 'exceptionally heavy use' has resulted in some dog waste bins 'overflowing'.

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