Somerset Council’s recycling and rubbish collection crews in the east of the county will be starting an hour earlier, from 6am, in the lead up to Glastonbury Festival. The change comes to help teams to reach everyone while extra traffic is on Somerset’s road network due to the festival.
From Tuesday 24 June to Friday 27 June, residents in the former Mendip area of Somerset are asked to put their bins, boxes and bags out the night before they are due to be collected, or by 6am at the latest.
The change in schedule should help to limit any disruption to recycling, rubbish or garden waste collections.
Road users are reminded that that A361 between Glastonbury and Shepton Mallet will be extremely busy between Monday 23 and Monday 30 June. If you are not a resident or business in the immediate area please plan ahead.
Somerset’s waste and recycling collection crews make more than 350,000 collections a week. For more information about what happens to the recycling they collect, check the Somerset Recycling Tracker on the Somerset Council website.
Residents can report a missed waste collection online.
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