Tag: Household Recycling Centres
Winter opening hours for Household Recycling Centres
Residents are being reminded that the winter opening hours at the city’s five Household Recycling Centres come into effect from November 1. Weekday opening hours until the week commencing February 29 will be 8am-6pm. Weekend opening hours until the week commencing February 29 will be 8am-4.30pm. The five HRC sites are: – Holford Drive, Perry […]
Reminder: Extended hours for Household Recycling Centres
Residents are being reminded the city’s three “super” Household Recycling Centres are open from 8am-8pm daily during the summer season.
Summer opening hours for Household Recycling Centres
Residents of Birmingham are being reminded that household refuse and recycling collection services will operate as usual over the Easter weekend.
For anyone using the long weekend as a chance to have a tidy up in and around their home, the city’s five Household Recycling Centres will begin their summer season of extended opening hours.
Keeping the city clean and moving over Christmas
Birmingham City Council has announced plans to keep the city clean and moving over the Christmas and New Year period with many key services continuing to operate across the holidays. With the onset of winter the city's fleet of gritters and snow ploughs will continue to be on-call 24/7, including all bank holidays, treating up […]
Black bag collections catching up
Efforts to clear the backlog of domestic waste in Birmingham, caused by ongoing industrial action plus increased volumes and severe weather problems over the festive period, continue to gather pace with 1,002 tonnes of black bag rubbish collected from the streets of the city yesterday alone. This represents a 42% increase on the volume of […]
Council collecting waste backlog
With the end of the bank holiday period and onset of better weather Birmingham City Council has outlined how it is catching up on the backlog of waste collections caused by industrial action, poor weather and increased demand over the Christmas period. Cllr Timothy Huxtable, Cabinet Member for Transportation and Regeneration, at Birmingham City Council, said: ”The […]
Refuse collection update - Dec 24
As previously announced in light of ongoing industrial action, Birmingham City Council intends to offer a limited refuse collection service on the upcoming Bank Holidays (December 27-28). The council's existing workforce was offered the opportunity to work on these two days but has regrettably declined to do so due to the current industrial action in […]