Weekly food and garden waste collections to restart in Milton Keynes

MK Council will be restarting its weekly food and garden waste collections on Monday, May 11.

Collections were suspended due to reduced staff numbers caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

But the situation has now improved enough for MK Council and partner Serco to resume collections a week on Monday.

To find out when your food and garden waste will be collected, look up your address on the council’s website hereA council spokesman said: "Managing the backlog may mean lots of waste and potentially some delays. We ask that you try to limit the amount that goes out. Unfortunately, we are not able to accept bagged green waste in addition to the bins. We know that people may have accumulated green waste during this brief pause, so would ask that you keep composting where you can."

Cabinet member for the public realm, Councillor Emily Darlington said: “I’d like to thank everyone for your patience while we’ve had to pause weekly green bin collections, and our bin crews who have worked tirelessly in these exceptional circumstances to keep waste and recycling collections going as usual.”

Household Waste Recycling Centres are not yet reopening, in line with Government advice around what is and isn’t an essential journey.