On my daily exercise walk this morning I spent much of it dodging the bins put out for collection. I noticed that many of them were the original light brown bins, but an increasing number were the replacement darker ones. If yours is the original light brown one and has split it will reach the stage where it cannot be collected. However, the Council will replace it free of charge if you’ve not recently had a replacement. To arrange it, go to :-
Some eagle eyed members may have seen brown bin and black box (glass) waste sometimes being mixed back together at the road side by the refuse collectors. This does not mean that we don’t need to separate glass from other recycling.
We understand that in order to sustain the service across Solihull and keep personnel socially distanced, it was necessary to switch to smaller crews and shorter rounds and to bring in two additional vehicles. The usual brown bin / black box vehicles are ‘split bodied’ with one section for glass and another for the brown bin contents, but no additional ‘split bodied’ vehicles were available. However, if one of the two ‘single bodied’ vehicles is allocated to your recycling round, you will see the contents you have separated being combined for splitting out again at a later stage of the process in an unavoidable temporary measure.