Have you ordered a green bin with your new garden waste subscription service? Cllr Blake, Cabinet Member for Environment and Carbon Reduction, demonstrates the cleaning process our refurbished bins go through and reminds us of the importance of recycling and the positive effects on the environment. If you haven’t already, sign up to the new service and make sure your garden waste is collected from Monday 5 June – www.basildon.gov.uk/gardenwaste Download the free Our Streets App for regular updat
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Have you ordered a green bin with your new garden waste subscription service? Cllr Blake, Cabinet Member for Environment and Carbon Reduction, demonstrates the cleaning process our refurbished bins go through and reminds us of the importance of recycling and the positive effects on the environment. If you haven’t already, sign up to the new service and make sure your garden waste is collected from Monday 5 June – www.basildon.gov.uk/gardenwaste Download the free Our Streets App for regular updat
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You can now apply for your garden waste permits for 2025 green bin collections to ensure your garden waste is collected. The easiest way to apply for a permit, which is £50 per green bin, is by visiting the Council’s website using the link in the comments. Alternatively, residents can call Customer Services on 0300 123 4510 or visit one of our Community Hubs. | East Dunbartonshire Council
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You can now apply for your garden waste permits for 2025 green bin collections to ensure your garden waste is collected. The easiest way to apply for a permit, which is £50 per green bin, is by visiting the Council’s website using the link in the comments. Alternatively, residents can call Customer Services on 0300 123 4510 or visit one of our Community Hubs. | East Dunbartonshire Council
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🎉 Weekly Black Bin Collections are making a comeback! 🎉 Starting 28th April, as promised, we’re bringing back WEEKLY black bin collections – and our crew is jumping for joy... literally! 😉 No more waiting around – just put your bin out each week on your usual day, and we’ll take care of the rest! 📅 Mark your calendars! 🗑️ Get those bins ready! 🎊 Less mess, less stress! ✅ We’re delivering on one of our 2025 Key Aims – promise kept! 💪♻️ #WeeklyBlackBinsAreBack #BinDayEveryWeek #NoMoreOverfl
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🎉 Weekly Black Bin Collections are making a comeback! 🎉 Starting 28th April, as promised, we’re bringing back WEEKLY black bin collections – and our crew is jumping for joy... literally! 😉 No more waiting around – just put your bin out each week on your usual day, and we’ll take care of the rest! 📅 Mark your calendars! 🗑️ Get those bins ready! 🎊 Less mess, less stress! ✅ We’re delivering on one of our 2025 Key Aims – promise kept! 💪♻️ #WeeklyBlackBinsAreBack #BinDayEveryWeek #NoMoreOverfl
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Basildon Councils ‘War on Billericay’s green spaces’ has begun. Basildon Council have issued the map of proposed developments in Billericay for the upcoming local plan. The proposals are grossly inappropriate and must be stopped if at all possible if the character and nature of Billericay as a community is to be saved. Map is in the comments | Cllr Andy Barnes
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Basildon Councils ‘War on Billericay’s green spaces’ has begun. Basildon Council have issued the map of proposed developments in Billericay for the upcoming local plan. The proposals are grossly inappropriate and must be stopped if at all possible if the character and nature of Billericay as a community is to be saved. Map is in the comments | Cllr Andy Barnes
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🚨 Weekly Black Bin Collections Are Coming BACK! 🚨 Starting Monday 28 April, your weekly residual waste collection is making a return! 🗑️ Here's what you need to know: ✅ Wheeled black bins will be collected every week! ✅ Put your bins out by 7:30am, and bring them back to your property after collection ❌ No bags on the floor next to your bins! ✅ Have more than one bin? They’ll both be collected with a valid permit 🏢 Flat-dwellers, your service stays the same! Keep using your communal bins For
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🚨 Weekly Black Bin Collections Are Coming BACK! 🚨 Starting Monday 28 April, your weekly residual waste collection is making a return! 🗑️ Here's what you need to know: ✅ Wheeled black bins will be collected every week! ✅ Put your bins out by 7:30am, and bring them back to your property after collection ❌ No bags on the floor next to your bins! ✅ Have more than one bin? They’ll both be collected with a valid permit 🏢 Flat-dwellers, your service stays the same! Keep using your communal bins For
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🚮 How full is your non-recyclable wheeled bin on your collection day? Councillor Aidan McGurran, Cabinet Member for Environment and Leisure, said, “The waste consultation only takes 5 minutes to complete, so why not take a moment to share your thoughts. Your input is crucial in helping improve your borough’s waste management services.” 💡 Don't forget to lend a hand to a friend or neighbour who might need help filling it out. Let's make sure everyone's voice is heard 💬🗑 It’s time to fix the b
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🚮 How full is your non-recyclable wheeled bin on your collection day? Councillor Aidan McGurran, Cabinet Member for Environment and Leisure, said, “The waste consultation only takes 5 minutes to complete, so why not take a moment to share your thoughts. Your input is crucial in helping improve your borough’s waste management services.” 💡 Don't forget to lend a hand to a friend or neighbour who might need help filling it out. Let's make sure everyone's voice is heard 💬🗑 It’s time to fix the b
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“There are green lights everywhere” 🚦📢 Hear from Councillor Gavin Callaghan, Leader of Basildon Council and Cabinet Member for Regeneration as he gives an update on the ongoing works happening at the new shopping centre being developed in Laindon. We’re very excited to see the centre take shape. Watch this space 🎉 For more information on the Laindon Shopping Centre, click the link - https://www.sanctuary.co.uk/about-sanctuary/development-and-regeneration/laindon-centre | Basildon Borough Coun
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“There are green lights everywhere” 🚦📢 Hear from Councillor Gavin Callaghan, Leader of Basildon Council and Cabinet Member for Regeneration as he gives an update on the ongoing works happening at the new shopping centre being developed in Laindon. We’re very excited to see the centre take shape. Watch this space 🎉 For more information on the Laindon Shopping Centre, click the link - https://www.sanctuary.co.uk/about-sanctuary/development-and-regeneration/laindon-centre | Basildon Borough Coun
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Bins: Fixed ✔️ Hello Basildon! This week Councillor Aidan McGurran, Cabinet Member for Environment and Leisure, King of the Bins, joined the refuse team for launch day of the new waste service to support our hard-working crews 🚛 Councillor Aidan McGurran said: "Being out with the crews makes you really appreciate how hard the team work. The new waste service is a faster, cleaner and more sustainable service that will help us return pride to the borough. As the crews navigate new routes, please
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Did you know fly-tipping includes leaving items by a street bin, recycling bank, or even outside a charity shop?🚯 Hear from Cllr Aidan McGurran, Cabinet Member for Environment and Leisure on fly tipping: “Today, I’m talking about fly tipping, don’t do it! Please use the resources available. Barleylands Recycling Centre is free and you don’t have to book, come down and use it!” Look after our estates, let’s make Basildon great again. ⚠️YOUR waste is YOUR responsibility—dispose of it correctly to
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Basildon Borough – You spoke, we listened, and we have delivered! 💪 🚛 Remember, with the launch of the new waste service: - Please ensure your waste is on the edge of your property by 7:30am - New disposable bags replace the old sacks - white for cans and plastic, and blue for paper and cardboard - Wheeled black bins will be collected EVERY week! (No bags on the floor next to bins, please!) - For flat properties with communal bins, your collections stay the same under the new system - You can
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Are you ok? 🙌 Come and visit our officers here at the Basildon Centre, we have FREE drop-in sessions to help with managing your finances, finding a new job or making sense of benefits application forms. Let us know how we can help you. Find out more information here: www.basildon.gov.uk/communityengagement | Basildon Borough Council
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A new hero is on its way ✊♻️. Your new black wheeled bin and reusable sacks are arriving from next week. We are improving your recycling service, making it easier and cleaner – right on your doorstep! Find out more here www.basildon.gov.uk/collectionchanges. | Basildon Borough Council
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🏡Your Home. Your Future. Your Say. 🌳🏙️ The Local Plan Part 2 Consultation is still open - but time is running out! This is your chance to help shape Basildon’s future. 🔹Planning for the future – Policies to meet housing needs, including more affordable homes. 🔹Healthy communities – Protecting green spaces, improving public health, and supporting education and recreation. 🔹Basildon Town Centre Masterplan – Better shops, restaurants, safer streets, and improved transport. 💬Make sure your vo
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Advice from Zak from our waste and recycling team. Please remember to: 🗑️ Leave your bin out by 7:30am on collection days 🚗 Park responsibly so we can access your street ✅ Ensure tissues are double bagged and tied before putting it out for collection | Basildon Borough Council
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Our new waste recycling trucks have multiple compartments to help separate our waste and make recycling easier. Together we will recycle more and send less waste to landfill ♻️ For further information on our new waste service, head to - www.basildon.gov.uk/Rubbish | Basildon Borough Council
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Hear from Councillor Kevin Blake, Cabinet Member for Environment, Carbon Reduction & Waste Enforcement, answering some of your questions regarding the new waste and recycling service. The new waste service begins Monday 27 November, for more information please visit our website www.basildon.gov.uk/collectionchanges Together we are recycling more and creating a cleaner, greener borough. | Basildon Borough Council
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Thank you everyone who crunched last Saturday, overall, we collected 51.345 tonnes of waste, equivalent of 4 bin lorries. 🎉🚚 The Crunch is on the move! 🚚🎉 This Saturday, 20 July, our mobile waste collection service will visit the following locations from 9 am to 12:30 pm: • Billericay: Carvers Wood, CM11 2TJ • Wickford: Kershaws Close, SS12 0LJ • Laindon: Southwell Link off Gower Chase, SS15 5TZ • Craylands: Jordan Way, SS14 3QL • Pitsea: Kenneth Road - Layby, SS13 2AT Check out what you can
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Hear from Councillor Kevin Blake, Cabinet Member for Environment, Carbon Reduction & Waste Enforcement, answering some of your questions regarding the new waste and recycling service. The new waste service begins Monday 27 November, for more information please visit our website www.basildon.gov.uk/collectionchanges Together we are recycling more and creating a cleaner, greener borough. | Basildon Borough Council
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Your New Waste Service Questions Answered 🗣️ Hear From Cllr Aidan McGurran, Cabinet Member for Environment and Leisure, answering some of your recent questions on the new waste service: "Don't forget that your brand new waste service will start on Monday the 28th of April. You spoke, we listened and we're ticking off one of 2025’s, key aims right away." Watch this space, part two coming soon ♻️ For more info go to - https://www.basildon.gov.uk/wastechanges Stay informed on future waste service
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Guess what’s coming to our borough this Autumn? Hint: it’s all about no more ripped open waste sacks! We are improving your recycling service, making it easier and cleaner – right on your doorstep! Keep an eye out for the arrival of your black wheeled bin and reusable sacks between September-November. Find out more here www.basildon.gov.uk/collectionchanges | Basildon Borough Council
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🚨 Bags Incoming! 🚨 Starting Monday 10 March, you'll receive 2 rolls of each new bag for your waste and recycling, BUT don’t use them yet! 🛑 Hold off until the new service kicks off on Monday 28 April. After that, your old recycling sacks will no longer be collected. What's new on 28 April? 📅 ✅ Weekly non-recyclable waste collection (no more waiting 2 weeks!) ✅ Disposable white & blue bags for your dry recycling (goodbye old sacks!) We’ve listened, and now we’re delivering! Let’s make the str
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📢 Have Your Say: Local Plan Part 2 Consultation is Live! 📢 We all want a safe home, a thriving community, and a future full of opportunities. Now is your chance to shape that future! Basildon’s Local Plan Part 2 Consultation is about more than policies - it’s about shaping a future that works for everyone. 🔹 Planning for the future – New policies will help meet housing needs, including affordable homes for local people. 🔹Creating healthy communities – Protecting green spaces, improving publi
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We continue to distribute your new recycling containers across the borough ♻🚛. Look out for your new containers arriving soon. Please store your new containers until the new service starts on Monday 27 November; please do not put them out before this. For more information, including frequently asked questions, please visit www.basildon.gov.uk/collectionchanges | Basildon Borough Council
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Over 12,500 households have already registered their interest for our weekly garden waste subscription service. Over the next week, we will be sharing short videos with the council’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Carbon Reduction, Cllr Kevin Blake, as he answers your FAQ’s. What if you don’t need your green bin emptied every week?👇 Register your interest for the service at: www.basildon.gov.uk/gardenwaste | Basildon Borough Council
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Our separate food and garden waste collections service starts next week from 3 October, so you should now start filling up your new food waste caddies ready for your weekly collection of food waste. Hear from our Waste and Recycling Officers Claire and Aaron, as they explain how your new bins work. If you haven’t received your new caddies, please email recycling@basildon.gov.uk or find out more at: www.basildon.gov.uk/foodandgarden | Basildon Borough Council
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How will the council know who has paid for garden waste collections? Cabinet Member for Environment and Carbon Reduction, Cllr Kevin Blake has made a series of short videos answering your FAQ's. You can register your interest in our weekly garden waste subscription service at: www.basildon.gov.uk/gardenwaste | Basildon Borough Council
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🎉 Meet Your Cabinet! 👋 Say hello to Councillor Aidan McGurran, Cabinet Member for Environment and Leisure - also known as The King of the Bins! 👑🗑️ Cllr McGurran is on a mission to deliver cleaner streets, services that work for residents, and areas for everyone in the borough to be proud of🌿 His responsibilities include: 🚮 Refuse, Waste Collection & Enforcement 🧹 Street Cleansing, Grounds Maintenance 🌱 Green Strategy, Climate Change, Arboriculture 🏋️ Leisure Centres, Parks, Allotments,
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Distribution is underway, your new recycling containers are arriving across the borough ♻️🚚 Please store your new containers until the new service starts on Monday 27 November, please do not put them out before this. We have answers to your frequently asked questions on our website: www.basildon.gov.uk/collectionchanges | Basildon Borough Council
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Thank you to more than 18,000 households who have signed up to the new weekly garden waste subscription service so far. www.basildon.gov.uk/gardenwaste Don’t forget to sign up before the new garden waste subscription service begins on Monday 5 June. If you have not subscribed by that date, you will no longer receive a garden waste collection. Visit our website to subscribe and pay for your bin(s). | Basildon Borough Council
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Your participation is making a huge difference, together we are reducing waste going to landfill by 30%*approx. Thank you to 95% of residents for supporting the launch of the new service, we’re all making a positive impact on our environment. Please continue to use your new containers correctly. If you put out black or pink sacks, this is fly tipping and you will be fined. To find out more information, please visit www.basildon.gov.uk/rubbish | Basildon Borough Council
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