Thousands of residents have signed up to receive a
text which reminds them to put out their brown bins.
Within days of East Riding of Yorkshire Council
launching its new text reminder service for the brown bins, nearly 7,000
residents had signed up and that number is rising.
Residents who sign up receive a free text message the
night before their brown bin is due to be emptied.
This service can also inform residents of changes to
collections in the event of severe bad weather, along with information on what
can be recycled in the brown bin.
A year ago the council launched a similar free text
reminder service for the blue recycling bins. Since then 21,000 residents have
signed up.
Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for
environment, housing and planning, said: “What a result! This is an excellent
response because it means those bins are almost certain to be emptied.
“This is even more important since we rolled out the
two new collection services last year of food waste and cardboard in the brown
bins, and glass, further plastics and Tetra Pak in the blue bins.”
Residents can sign up to the brown bin text message
service by texting the code at the top left of their brown bin calendar to
07786 200406.
For further information on the free text reminder
services for the blue and brown bins, visit the council’s waste and recycling
website.
Target45plus (external East Riding website)
