As had been feared, the less-than-clear council communications about waste collections over the Christmas and New Year period meant that some residents put out black bins for collection today.

As we have previously reported, information issued by the council indicated that those households due a collection on Monday 25th would receive a collection on Saturday 23rd instead. Some households that were due a recycling collection on the 25th interpreted this as meaning that they would get an ‘extra’ black bin collection on Saturday 23rd, which wasn’t the case.