We’re ecstatic at how well everyone has taken to the new kerbside collection service brought in earlier this year.

The new waste and recycling service, which started in July, added a food scraps

and garden waste green-lidded bin and a red-lidded rubbish bin to replace the

former pre-paid DCC plastic rubbish bags.

The new bins are in addition to the existing yellow-lidded mixed-recycling bin and blue glass bin. The DCC is pleased to report that residents adapted to the

changes with little difficulty.

Over 1,591 tonnes of food scraps and green waste was collected in the first two months of the new service. This made up 47.61% of waste collected, with the remaining 52.39% (1,751 tonnes) collected in the red-lidded waste bins.

Residents have also been downloading and accessing the improved, free DCC Kerbside Collections App from both the Google Play and iOS App stores in droves.

The number of active users jumped from 4784 in May to 15,604 by the end of August. The kerbside collection app has information on what goes in each of the bins. Users can get notifications so they know when to put bins out and if there are delays or changes to collection days. It can also be used to report if bins were not collected or need fixing.