Your recycling, waste and green waste will be collected one day later this bank holiday week, and ongoing delays may see more disruptions.

Your recycling, waste and green waste will be collected one day later this bank holiday week, and ongoing delays may see more disruptions.

East Devon District Council’s waste and recycling crews have worked tirelessly for months and need a well-deserved holiday weekend break. As a result, we will need to make some catch-up collections on Saturday.

A spokesperson said: “We acknowledge that, due to acute staff shortages, collections are being disrupted but we will work as closely as we can to the planned ‘one day later’ schedule but some collections may get further delays during the holiday week.”

East Devon District Council would like to thank residents for their patience at this time and have set out a series of steps for people to check to see if their collection has been affected.
Any amendments to a collection will be notified to any affected resident via the East Devon ‘app’. These amendments will also be posted on to the Council’s website www.eastdevon.gov.uk which will contain the most up to date information.

If a recycling collection has been missed, residents are asked to continue to leave the containers out whilst an attempt is made to catch up. If after 4 days, the collection has not been made, please take the recycling back in and place any extra out in carrier bags on the next scheduled collection day.

If a refuse or green [garden-]waste collection has been missed, please report this to the council via the website and our contractor will endeavour to collect this as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, the bulky household items collection service has currently been suspended to allow staff to be redeployed to assist with the recycling collections.

The national recruitment challenges at this current time mean that these interruptions to services may continue for the foreseeable future. If you or someone you know is interested in joining our recycling and waste teams, please contact James Gatter at Suez on 01395 234500 to discuss. We have opportunities for LGV Class 2 drivers, van drivers and loaders.